frame

FRAME, verb transitive [Latin 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, verb intransitive To contrive. Judges 12:6. FRAME, noun 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.