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shape

(shāp) [AS. sceapan]

1. To mold to a particular form.

2. Outward form; contour.

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You know the sort - made from only the finest beans, picked in moonlight and individually licked into shape by skilled chocolatiers (since 1865).

WEEKEND: Please keep chocs away

But she has the height advantage over Alex Ferns as her intended and it's hard to imagine she wouldn't have had him licked into shape.

Not quite rocking the boat yet

And it's not the only former slapper tavern to have been licked into shape by the city's own club-cleansing clique.

Going out: Pubs: PAUL ENGLISH visits a new fixture on the South Side of Glasgow scene but laments the loss of the legendary sticky carpets and shabby charm

For a while at least a pampered life of a Royal will come to an end, though some members of Sandhurst think it might take the Royal rebel a long 44 weeks to be licked into shape.