frame 
He's a very jealousy man ; she leads a very framvoM 
life with him, good heart. Shak., XI. W. of W., ii. 2. 
I come from the fine, f reward, frampul lady, 
One was run mad with pride. 
B. Jonson, New Inn, v. 1. 
Is 1'ompey grown so malapert, so /ram/"' / 
K 
Frame of Iron Ship. 
A, double bottom ; B, bracket frame ; C. coal-bunkers ; D. upper 
or spar deck : D? , upper- or spar-deck beam : f, main frame ; H, ham- 
mock-berthing ; /, inner bottom plating ; K, keel ; L, longitudinals ; 
frame; S, boilers; Y. protective deck ; V , protective-deck beam. 
Specifically (o) An open elevated framework of wood or 
iron that supports the cases out of which the compositor 
picks his types, (b) A loom ; especially, a sort of loom 
on which linen, silk, etc., are stretched forquilting or em- 
broidering, or on which lace, stockings, etc., are made, 
(c) In milit. engin., a framework of four stout pieces of 
scantling fastened together in rectangular form, placed at 
intervals in shafts and galleries, to support and hold In 
position the sheeting, (if) In hart., a glazed structure 
of different kinds, portable or permanent, for protecting 
young plants from frost, etc. (e) In mining, a very sim- 
ple apparatus for washing ore, consisting of a table of 
boards slightly inclined, over which runs a gentle stream 
of water. See .framing-table. [Cornwall, Eng.J (/t) A 
raft. Dames. 
Set sayles aloft, make out with oares, In ships, in hoates, in 
frames. P/iaer, JKneia, iv. 
Hence 7. An inclosing border of any kind; 
specifically, in art, a purely ornamental sur- 
rounding border, as in sculptured or other re- 
lief ornament; a carved border to a sunken 
panel or opening; in surface-decoration, a 
painted or inlaid ornament carried round a 
fresco-painting or other picture upon a wall. 
There were no flowers, no garden-beds; only a broad 
gravel-walk girdling a grass-plat, and this set in the heavy 
frame of the forest. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xxxvii. 
8. Particular state, as of the mind; mental 
condition ; natural temper or disposition : as, 
an unhappy frame of mind. 
Christianity is not so much a Divine institution as a 
Divine /rauu! and temper of spirit. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 19. 
Your steady soul preserves her/rai. Swift. 
I gat by his bed the whilst He passed away in a blessed 
frame. Scott, Kenilworth, 1. 
Only in the gathered silence 
Of a calm and watttnffJVfMM 
Light and wisdom as from Heaven 
To the seeker came. Whittier, To . 
9. Shape ; form ; proportion. [Obsolete or ar- 
chaic.] 
Good my lord, put your discourse into some frame, and 
start not so wildly from my affair. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 2. 
A bear's a savage beast, . . . 
Whelp'd without form, until the dam 
Has lick'd it into shape and frame. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, I. iii. 1308. 
Balloon frame, in carp., a wooden frame for a building, 
formed of light scantlings, all of equal size, and nailed to- 
gether, instead of being framed and pinned together. Such 
a frame depends for its strength chiefly upon the boarding 
nailed to the outside. Flexible frame, in car- and car- 
riage-building, a frame so constructed that the natural 
spring of the wood may serve in part as an equivalent for 
metallic springs, which may thus be dispensed with entire- 
If or In part Car- Builder's DM. Out of frame. Seeow. 
framea (fra'me-a), w. ; pi. framece (-e). [L. ; of 
Teut. origin.]' "l. In hist., a long spear used 
by the Franks, having a socketed head, some- 
times barbed, but more commonly formed like 
a lance-head with a flat double-edged blade. 
2. Inarc7wroJ.,acelt of the socketed form. See 
eel ft and amgarn. 
frame-breaker (fram'bra'ker), . A weaver 
who attempted to prevent by violence the in- 
troduction of looms operated by machinery. 
[Eng.] 
I only wish the machines the frames were safe here, 
and lodged within the walls of this mill. Once put up, I 
defy the frame-breakers. Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, ii. 
frame-bridge (fram'brij), n. A bridge con- 
structed of pieces of timber framed together. 
frame-diagram (fram'di''a-gram), n. See dia- 
gram. 
frame-helmet (fram'hel''met), w. A helmet 
in which there is a solid frame, consisting of a 
ring round the brows with two, three, or more 
half-arches meeting at the top, and a boss to 
2360 franchise 
which the half-arches are bolted, the spaces 
between the arches being filled with lighter 
metal in plates, which can easily be bent to 
the slight curve required. Helmets of this form 
are common among peoples who are not skilful Is i. ompe y grown so malapert, so/i 
in forging. Beau, and Ft., Wit at Several Weapons, iii. 1. 
frame-house (fram'hous), . 1. A house con- franc (frangk),n. [Now spelled as F.; formerly 
structed with a skeleton frame of timber cov- frank; < ME. frank (= MLG .frank = G. frank = 
ered in with boards, and sometimes with shin- Sw. Dan. frank), < 
gles, etc. 2f. A house in which framing or OF. franc F franc 
= Sp.Pg. It, /can- 
Co, a franc: so 
called, it is said, 
from the device 
Francontm rex, 
King of the Franks 
or French, on the 
coin as first struck 
by King John in 
1360. See-fVawfci. 
n., frank 2 , a., ana 
JVcnc/1.] 1. Either 
of two ancient 
coins in France: 
one, of gold (the 
franc <i cheval, the 
obverse being a 
horseman), first 
coined by John the 
Good in 1360; the 
other, of silver, by 
Henry III. in 1575. 
The gold franc weigh- 
ed about 60 grains, and 
was worth alwut half 
aguinea English. The 
specimen of the silver 
coin given in the cut 
weighs about 217 
grains, and was worth 
about one third as 
much as the gold coin. This coin afterward fluctuated 
greatly in size and value, and was not minted after 1641, 
being replaced by the still older livre, but remained as a 
money of account. 
2. A French silver coin and money of account 
which since 1795 has formed the unit of the 
French monetary system. It has also been adopted 
as the unit of currency by Switzerland and Belgium, and 
the lira of Italy, the drachma of Greece, the dinar of Ser- 
via, etc., have lieen made conformable to it. It is of the 
value of a little over n}rf. English money, or about 19 
United States cents, and is Armed into 100 centimes, 
frangaise (F. pron. fron-saz'), n. [F., prop, 
fern, of fraitfais, French: see French?] A 
French country-dance in triple rhythm, or the 
music for it. 
building is carried on. [Bare.] 
God's scholars have learned otherwise to think of the 
cross, that it is the frame-house in the which God frameth 
his children like to his Son Christ. 
J. Bradford, Letters (Parker Soc., 1863), II. 78. 
frame-knitting (fram'nit'ing), n. A kind of 
weaving or knotting made upon pins fixed in 
a frame, and resembling, when finished, ordi- 
nary knitting. 
frameless (fram'les), . [< frame, n., + -less.'] 
Having no frame. 
A couple of finished pictures . . . stood in one comer, 
frameless. The Century, XXVIII. 541. 
frame-level (fram'lev'el), n. A masons' level. 
E. H. Knight. 
framer (fra'mer), n. One who frames; a 
maker ; a contriver. 
Almighty f ranter of the skies \ 
O let our pure devotion rise 
Like incense in thy sight. 
Chatterton, Hymn for Christmas Day. 
Of the numerous servants of the Company who have dis- 
tinguished themselves as framers of minutes and des- 
patches, Hastings stands at the head. 
Maeautay, Warren Hastings. 
frame-saw (fram'sa), . A thin saw stretched 
in a frame to give it sufficient rigidity for work- 
ing. 
frame-timber (fram'tim*ber), n. One of the 
timbers constituting part of the frame of a 
house or a vessel. 
framework (fram'werk), n. 1. A structure or 
fabric for inclosing or supporting anything; a 
frame ; a skeleton : as, the framework of a build- 
ing; the bones are the framework of the body. 
The screen in front [of Kenheri Cave] has all the mor- 
tices and other indications, as at Karll, proving that it 
was intended to l>e covered with wooden galleries and 
framework. J. Fergusson, Hist. Indian Arch., p. 130. 
2. Structure ; constitution ; adjusted arrange- 
ment; system. 
Once we held debate, a band 
Of youthful friends, on mind and art, 
And labour and the changing mart, 
And all the framework of tlie land. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, Ixxxvii. 
Silver Franc of Henry III. of France 
British Museum. ( Size o'f the original. ) 
3. A kind of fancy work made with yarn' of silk franc-archer (F pron. frouk'ar-sha'), .; pi. 
or worsted drawn acros, . franes-areliers (fronz'ar-sha'). One of a body 
or worsted drawn across a frame in two direc- 
tions, and knotted or otherwise secured at the n - 
intersections, producing reticulated patterns, France, one man being equipped by each parish, 
sometimes of considerable elaboration. [Prop- and . bein * free of taxes m consideration of his 
erly frame-work.] -Branchial framework. See 
branchial. 
framing (fra'ming), i. [< ME. framynge; ver- 
bal n. of frame, D.j 1. The manner or style of _, 
putting together. 2. A framework or frame ; francht, ' t. [Appar. a var. of frimch ; of. 
a system of frames. 3. In metallurgical opera- craunch, crunch.'] To crunch with the teeth. 
tions, a process of separating the slime, as re- I 8 w a river slept with stormes of winde, 
Wherethrough a swan, a bull, a bore did passe, 
Franching the fish and frie with teeth of brasse. 
Baldmne, in Mir. for Mags., p. 408. 
franchise (fran'chiz or -chiz), n. [< ME. fran- 
of bowmen formed by order of Charles VII. of 
service. The use of the bow by the peasantry of France 
had always been discouraged by the nobility with disas- 
trous results on the field of battle, hence this undertak- 
ing on the part of the king, under whom the English were 
finally expelled from France. 
ceived from the trunk, into grades according 
to value. Also called ragging. See framing- 
table. 
framing-chisel (fra'ming-chizM), n. In carp., 
a heavy chisel used for making mortises. 
framing-table (fra'ming-ta'bl), n. In mining, 
chise, fraunchise, fraunches, fraunchesse, free- 
dom, privilege, generosity, < OF. franchise, F. 
franchise, freedom, privileged liberty (= Pr. 
trunk. A current of water let in upon 
that end washes the poorer portions and impurities down- 
ward, toward or out of the lower end, the heavier and 
richer portions of the ore remaining at the top. When the 
slime is thus cleansed and distributed, the table is revolved 
on its supporting axles, and the contents are dumped into 
assorting-boxes beneath, from which the ore is taken to 
be submitted to other operations suited to its character. 
This operation of sorting is called framing or ragging, and 
there were formerly various modifications of the process 
in use in Cornwall, England, where, however, the simplest 
form of ore-dressing has been nearly superseded by im- 
proved methods and machinery. See buddies and percus- 
sion-table. 
frammit (fram'it), a. A Scotch form otfremd. 
An' monie a friend that kiss'd his caup 
Is now & frammit wight. 
Burns, The Five Carlines. 
frampel, frampold (fram'pel, -pold), a. [Also 
written frampal, frampul, frampald, frampled, 
frampard,framfold, etc. ; < W. ffromfol, passion- 
ate, < ffromi, fume, fret, ffrom, testy.] Unruly; 
froward ; evil-conditioned ; peevish ; rugged ; 
quarrelsome. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] 
For this flower of age . . . winseth and flingeth out 
like a skittish and framiMld horse, in such sort that he 
had ueed of a sharpe bit and short curb. 
Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 12. 
freedom), <. franc, free: see frank 2 , a."] If. Lib- 
erty; freedom from constraint or subjection; 
independence ; enfranchisement. 
In doubte is all our snrete to deuise, 
And our noble and blisst-d/rancArVe 
Is full strangely changed into seruice. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3745. 
Mnlmutiua . . . 
Ordain'd our laws; . . . whose repair and franchise 
Shall, by the power we hold, be our good deed. 
Shak., Cymbeline, iii. 1. 
2. A privilege arising from the grant of a sov- 
ereign or government, or from prescription, 
which presupposes a grant; a privilege of a 
public nature conferred on individuals by grant 
from government : as, a corporate franchise (the 
right to be and act as a corporation). 
No man ne may bygge (buy) lether grene ne skyn grene 
in the towun, but ^if he be of fraunchyae, vppeyne to 
nyme that good to the ferme of the town. 
English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 353. 
Your temples burned in their cement ; and 
\onrfranchiges, whereon you stood, eonfln'd 
Into an auger's bore. Shak., Cor., iv. 6. 
He was the first that appointed the Forms of Civil Gov- 
ernment in London, and other Cities, endowing them ateo 
with their greatest Franchises. Baker, Chronicles, p. 73. 
