Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Form \Form\ (f[^o]rm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Formed} (f[^o]rmd);
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Forming}.] [F. former, L. formare, fr.
   forma. See {Form}, n.]
   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. 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. 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. To provide with a form, as a hare. See {Form}, n., 9.

            The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers.
                                                  --Drayton.

   5. (Gram.) To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the
      proper suffixes and affixes.

Forming \Form"ing\, n.
   The act or process of giving form or shape to anything; as,
   in shipbuilding, the exact shaping of partially shaped
   timbers.