5. To support. [Obs. & R.]
That on a staff his feeble steps did frame.
Spenser. 6. To provide with a frame, as a picture.
Frame
(Frame), v. i.
1. To shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech. [Obs.] Judg. xii. 6.
2. To proceed; to go. [Obs.]
The bauty of this sinful dame
Made many princes thither frame.
Shak. Frame
(Frame), n.
1. 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.
These are thy glorious works, Parent of good,
Almighty! thine this universal frame.
Milton. 2. The bodily structure; physical constitution; make or build of a person.
Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.
Shak.
No frames could be strong enough to endure it.
Prescott. 3. 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; as: (a) The
skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels. (b) (Founding)
A molding box or flask, which being filled with sand serves as a mold for castings. (c) The ribs
and stretchers of an umbrella or other structure with a fabric covering. (d) A structure of four bars,
adjustable in size, on which cloth, etc., is stretched for quilting, embroidery, etc. (e) (Hort.) A glazed
portable structure for protecting young plants from frost. (f) (Print.) A stand to support the type cases
for use by the compositor.
4. (Mach.) A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as,
a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc.
5. Form; shape; proportion; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as, a frameof government.
She that hath a heart of that fine frame
To pay this debt of love but to a brother.
Shak.
Put your discourse into some frame.
Shak. 6. Particular state or disposition, as of the mind; humor; temper; mood; as, to be always in a happy frame.
7. Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming. [Obs.]
John the bastard
Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies.
Shak. Balloon frame, Cant frames, etc. See under Balloon, Cant, etc. — Frame building or house, a
building of which the form and support is made of framed timbers. [U.S.] — Frame level, a mason's
level. — Frame saw, a thin saw stretched in a frame to give it rigidity.
Framer
(Fram"er) n. One who frames; as, the framer of a building; the framers of the Constitution.
