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Frame
FRAME, v.t. [L. armus, Eng. arm.]
1. To fit or prepare and unite several parts in a regular structure or entire thing; to fabricate by orderly construction and union of various parts; as, to frame a house or other building.
2. To fit one thing to another; to adjust; to make suitable.
3. To make; to compose; as, to frame a law.
For thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.
4. To regulate; to adjust; to shape; to conform; as, to frame our lives according to the rules of the gospel.
5. To form and digest by thought; as, to frame ideas in the mind.
How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years!
6. To contrive; to plan; to devise; as, to frame a project or design.
7. To invent; to fabricate, in a bad sense; as, to frame a story or lie.
FRAME, v.i. To contrive. Judg 12:6.
FRAME, n.
1. The timbers of an edifice fitted and joined in the form proposed, for the purpose of supporting the covering; as the frame of a house, barn, bridge or ship.
2. Any fabric or structure composed of parts united; as the frame of an ox or horse. So we say, the frame of the heavenly arch; the frame of the world.
3. Any kind of case or structure made for admitting, inclosing or supporting things; as the frame of a window, door, picture or looking glass.
4. Among printers, a stand to support the cases in which the types are distributed.
5. Among founders, a kind of ledge, inclosing a board, which being filled with wet sand, serves as a mold for castings.
6. A sort of loom on which linen, silk, etc. is stretched for quilting or embroidering.
7. Order; regularity; adjusted series or composition of parts. We say, a person is out of frame; the mind is not in a good frame.
Your steady soul preserves her frame.
8. Form; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as a frame of government.
9. Contrivance; projection.
John the bastard, whose spirits toil in frame of villainies.
10. Shape; form; proportion.
frame appears in definitions for these words:
Anatomy Anthropolite Arbor Architecture Arthrodia Balass Barrow Bearing Bedstead Belong Bier Binding Bitts Board Body Bone Bow-dye Brace Brest Bridge Broken-backed Buddle Build Built Bush Caissoon Cantaliver Carcass Carpenter Cavil Chair Chandelier Chase Composure Conceivable Conceived Condition Constitution Constitutional Constitutionalist Constitutionality Constitutionally Construct Constructer Contextural Contignation Convulse Corporeal Corporeous Corpulent Cott Counterdraw Cradle Cross-trees Curb Dam Delicacy Delicate Dependence Designer Devotional Dispose Disposition Door Door-case Drag Easel Emotion Enchased Equanimous Fabric Fabricate Fabricated Fiber Fillet Form Frame Framer Framework Frisket Gallery Gally Gate Gild Gill Girder Glare Grate Groundly Guarded Hatch Hemiplegy Herse Hopper Horse Hull Hurdle Illumination Inform Invent Jack Joist Keel Key Kite Knight-heads Ladder Lee Lintel Locker Loom Lote Mullion Munnion Muscular Mutability Obscure Organically Paper-kite Parrel Penstock Pillory Policy Polity Pomme Pontoon Posture Prayerful Presentment Proa Prudently Pumper Quaint Rack Racking Raise Raising Reasonableness Reel Reframe Rib Rider Riglet Rock Sash Scaffolding Shake Shelf Sill Skeleton Sluice Sofa Square Staddle Stair Stalder Stall Stand Stead Stern-frame Stick Stock Structure Sweep Syllogize Table Tally Tenter Theologize Thought Thrill Timber Tough Transom Travis Trellis Trestle Tumor Turnpike Tympan Unfirm Unframable Unframed Universal Unpin Weeding-rhim Wheel Wild Window Window-frame Window-sash Write
Anatomy Anthropolite Arbor Architecture Arthrodia Balass Barrow Bearing Bedstead Belong Bier Binding Bitts Board Body Bone Bow-dye Brace Brest Bridge Broken-backed Buddle Build Built Bush Caissoon Cantaliver Carcass Carpenter Cavil Chair Chandelier Chase Composure Conceivable Conceived Condition Constitution Constitutional Constitutionalist Constitutionality Constitutionally Construct Constructer Contextural Contignation Convulse Corporeal Corporeous Corpulent Cott Counterdraw Cradle Cross-trees Curb Dam Delicacy Delicate Dependence Designer Devotional Dispose Disposition Door Door-case Drag Easel Emotion Enchased Equanimous Fabric Fabricate Fabricated Fiber Fillet Form Frame Framer Framework Frisket Gallery Gally Gate Gild Gill Girder Glare Grate Groundly Guarded Hatch Hemiplegy Herse Hopper Horse Hull Hurdle Illumination Inform Invent Jack Joist Keel Key Kite Knight-heads Ladder Lee Lintel Locker Loom Lote Mullion Munnion Muscular Mutability Obscure Organically Paper-kite Parrel Penstock Pillory Policy Polity Pomme Pontoon Posture Prayerful Presentment Proa Prudently Pumper Quaint Rack Racking Raise Raising Reasonableness Reel Reframe Rib Rider Riglet Rock Sash Scaffolding Shake Shelf Sill Skeleton Sluice Sofa Square Staddle Stair Stalder Stall Stand Stead Stern-frame Stick Stock Structure Sweep Syllogize Table Tally Tenter Theologize Thought Thrill Timber Tough Transom Travis Trellis Trestle Tumor Turnpike Tympan Unfirm Unframable Unframed Universal Unpin Weeding-rhim Wheel Wild Window Window-frame Window-sash Write
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