Frame

·vt To Support.

II. Frame ·vt To provide with a frame, as a picture.

III. Frame ·noun Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.

IV. Frame ·noun A stand to support the type cases for use by the compositor.

V. Frame ·vi To Proceed; to Go.

VI. Frame ·noun A glazed portable structure for protecting young plants from frost.

VII. Frame ·vi To Shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech.

VIII. Frame ·noun The bodily structure; physical constitution; make or build of a person.

IX. Frame ·noun The ribs and stretchers of an umbrella or other structure with a fabric covering.

X. Frame ·noun A molding box or flask, which being filled with sand serves as a mold for castings.

XI. Frame ·vt To Cause; to bring about; to Produce.

XII. Frame ·noun Form; shape; proportion; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as, a frameof government.

XIII. Frame ·noun The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels.

XIV. Frame ·noun Particular state or disposition, as of the mind; humor; temper; mood; as, to be always in a happy frame.

XV. Frame ·noun A structure of four bars, adjustable in size, on which cloth, ·etc., is stretched for quilting, embroidery, ·etc.

XVI. Frame ·noun A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, ·etc.

XVII. Frame ·vt To fit to something else, or for some specific end; to Adjust; to Regulate; to Shape; to Conform.

XVIII. Frame ·noun A kind of open case or structure made for admitting, inclosing, or supporting things, as that which incloses or contains a window, door, picture, ·etc.; that on which anything is held or stretched.

XIX. Frame ·vt To Originate; to Plan; to Devise; to Contrive; to Compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false.

XX. Frame ·noun Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure; ·esp., the constructional system, whether of timber or metal, that gives to a building, vessel, ·etc., its model and strength; the skeleton of a structure.

XXI. Frame ·vt To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts of one member to fit parts of another. ·see Dovetail, Halve, ·vt, Miter, Tenon, Tooth, Tusk, Scarf, and Splice.

XXII. Frame ·add. ·noun In games: (a) In pool, the triangular form used in setting up the balls; also, the balls as set up, or the round of playing required to pocket them all; as, to play six frames in a game of 50 points. (b) In bowling, as in tenpins, one of the several innings forming a game.