FORM (2)

form (2). Form, v.t. to model, make, plan, contrive, arrange

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Form (fôrm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Formed (fôrmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Forming.] [[F. former, L. formare, fr. forma. See Form, n.]] 1. 1. To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion.
God formed man of the dust of the ground. Gen. ii. 7. The thought that labors in my forming brain. Rowe. 2. 2. To give a particular shape to; to shape, mold, or fashion into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust; also, to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train.
'T is education forms the common mind. Pope. Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind. Dryden. 3. 3. To go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to make the shape of; — said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part.
The diplomatic politicians . . . who formed by far the majority. Burke. 4. 4. To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9.
The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers. Drayton. 5. 5. (Gram.) To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes.