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FRAME, 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, To contrive. Judges 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, &c. 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.