Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary

Shape, subst. 1) form, figure, outline: “success will fashion the event in better s.” Ado IV, 1, 237. “in every lineament, branch, s. and form,” V, 1, 14. the s. of love's Tyburn (the gallows) LLL IV, 3, 54. “the s. of his leg,” Tw. II, 3, 170. Cymb. IV, 2, 309. “s. of likelihood,” H4A I, 1, 58. “the front of heaven was full of fiery --s,” III, 1, 14. that gave it (action) “surmised s.” Troil. I, 3, 17. Troil. I, 3, 17 Troil. I, 3, 17 “what convenience both of time and means may fit us to our s.” Hml. IV, 7, 151 (for our form of proceeding).* “I'll move the king to any s. of thy preferment,” Cymb. I, 5, 71. nature's own s. of bud, bird etc. Per. V Prol. Per. V Prol.
Used of the form of living beings, especially of men: Ven. 294. Lucr. 597. Lucr. 597 Sonn. 24, 10. 62, 6. 113, 6. Tp. I, 2, 284. Tp. I, 2, 284 Tp. I, 2, 284 III, 1, 56. III, 3, 31. III, 3, 31 IV, 185. V, 291. Gent. IV, 1, 56. V, 4, 109. Wiv. IV, 4, 60. Meas. II, 1, 3. Err. II, 2, 199. Ado III, 1, 96. LLL II, 59. LLL II, 59 V, 2, 288. Mids. II, 1, 32. Mids. II, 1, 32 III, 1, 142. Merch. III, 2, 278. As V, 4, 126. All's I, 1, 71. Tw. I, 5, 280. Wint. IV, 4, 27. John I, 138. John I, 138 R2 V, 1, 26. H6A II, 3, 69. V, 3, 35. V, 3, 35 V, 3, 35 H6B V, 1, 158. H6C III, 2, 192. R3 IV, 4, 286. Troil. I, 2, 275. I, 3, 179. Cor. I, 4, 35. Rom. I, 4, 55. III, 3, 122. III, 3, 122 III, 3, 122 III, 3, 122 Caes. II, 1, 253. Mcb. III, 4, 102. Hml. III, 2, 394. Lr. I, 2, 8. IV, 2, 67. Ant. IV, 8, 26. IV, 14, 14. “to worship shadows and adore false --s,” Gent. IV, 2, 131.
2) external appearance, semblance: “you in every blessed s. we know,” Sonn. 53, 12. “I would my husband would meet him in this s.” Wiv. IV, 2, 87. IV, 4, 44. V, 1, 22. “she cannot love, nor take no s. nor project of affection,” Ado III, 1, 55. “in the s. of two countries at once,” III, 2, 34. “if commotion appeared in his true s.” H4B IV, 1, 37. H5 IV, 8, 56. H6B III, 1, 79. R3 II, 2, 27. H8 I, 1, 196. Tim. II, 2, 119. III, 2, 80. IV, 3, 430. Hml. I, 4, 43. I, 5, 54. II, 2, 629. Lr. I, 4, 331. II, 3, 7.
3) any thing bodied forth by the imagination: “full of forms, figures, --s,” LLL IV, 2, 69. V, 2, 773. “the poet's pen turns them to --s,” Mids. V, 16. “so full of --s is fancy,” Tw. I, 1, 14. “find --s of grief, more than himself, to wail,” R2 II, 2, 22. “full of nimble fiery and delectable --s,” H4B IV, 3, 108. “--s and forms of slaughter,” Troil. V, 3, 12. “imagination to give them s.” Hml. III, 1, 129. “in forgery of --s and tricks,” IV, 7, 90.