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.
2. To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose;
in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something
false.
How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind
of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years.
--I. Watts.
3. To fit to something else, or for some specific end; to
adjust; to regulate; to shape; to conform.
And frame my face to all occasions. --Shak.
We may in some measure frame our minds for the
reception of happiness. --Landor.
The human mind is framed to be influenced. --I.
Taylor.
4. To cause; to bring about; to produce. [Obs.]
Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds. --Shak.
That on a staff his feeble steps did frame.
--Spenser.
6. To provide with a frame, as a picture.
The bauty of this sinful dame Made many princes
thither frame. --Shak.