enotes the external appearance or surface of a body, or the disposition of its parts, as to the length, breadth, and thickness.

Form is also used among mechanics, for a sort of mould wherein any thing is fashioned or wrought.

Printer's Form, an assemblage of letters, words, and lines, ranged in order, and so disposed on pages by the compositor; from which, by means of ink and a press, the printed sheets are drawn.

Every form is inclosed in an iron-chafe, wherein it is firmly locked by a number of pieces of wood; some long and narrow, and others of the form of wedges. There are two forms required for every sheet, one for each side; and each form consists of more or fewer pages according to the size of the book.

Hatter's Form, is a large block or piece of wood, of a cylindrical figure; the top thereof rounded, and the bottom quite flat. Its use is, to mould or fashion the crown of the hat, after the matter thereof has been beaten and fulled.

Paper-maker's Form, is the frame or mould wherein the sheets are fashioned. See Paper.