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See freke. frakedt, a. [ME., Nis none werse fo thene frakede fere [than a bad companion]. Old Eng. Homilies (ed. Morris), II. 189. Man hath still a reasonable understanding, and a will thereby framable to good things, but is not thereunto now able to frame himself. Hooker , Eccles. Polity, v., App. 1. frambœsia (fram-bē'si-ä), n. [NL., fram boise (whence Sp. frambuesa ), raspberry, dial. (Walloon) frombdhe , perhaps (with change of br to fr by a ociation with F. fraise , straw berry: see fraise3 ) Vegetations and growths occur, at first wart-like, later profusely hypertrophic- frambæsioid . Buck's Handbook of Med . Sciences, V. 77. frame (fram), v.; pret. and pp. framed , ppr. framing. [ME. framen, construct, build, framen, fremen, fremmen, strengthen, refresh, fremen, fremmen, perform, execute, framen , framien, fremien, fremen , intr. (with dat. obj.), profit, be of advantage, avail, framian , fremian , intr., profit, avail, = OS. fremmian , perform, = OFries. frema, commit, effect, = MLG. vromen, LG. framen = OHG. fremman , freman , MHG. fre men = Icel. fremja , frama = Sw. främja = Dan. fremme , promote, further, perform (etc.; the various verbal forms and senses are mingled), fram , from , a., bold, forward, strenuous, strong, OS. from , earnest, OFries. fremo , = = Sw. from = D. vroom = MLG. vrome = MHG. vrum, vrom, G. fromm, pious, strong, brave, honest, kind, Icel. framr , forward, prominent, Dan. from , pious, meek; connected with AS. fram , from , prep., from: see from . The sense construct' appears first in ME.] I. trans. 1t. To strengthen; refresh; support. Thor [there] ghe [she] gan fremen Ysmael With watres drinc and bredes mel. Genesis and Exodus (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1245. At last, with creeping crooked pace forth came An old, old man, with beard as white as snow, That on a staffe his feeble steps did frame . 21. To execute; perform. Spenser, F. Q., I. viii. 30. Alle haueden sworen him oth... That he sholden hise wille freme. Havelok , 1. 439. The silken tackle Shak., A. and C., ii. 2. Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands That yarely frame the office. 3. To fit, as for a specific end; make suitable or conformable; adapt; adjust. I will hereafter frame my self to be coy. frame Our English Universities, however far in the historic distance we may throw back their origin, must have been framed on the model of the Continental Universities. Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 141. 6. [ There at the window stood, Framed in its black square length, with lamp in hand, Pompilia. Browning , Ring and Book, I. 286. Lo! God's likene - the ground-plan- Neither modell'd, glaz'd, nor framed. Tennyson, Vision of Sin. Satins may also be cleaned, dried, damped, brushed, framed , and finished, exactly as described for silk damasks. Workshop Receipts , 2d ser., p. 147. II. in trans. 11. To profit; avail. Of ther childer it sais the names, To neven [name] tham here it ne frames . Rob. of Brunne , in Layamon (ed. Madden), III. 389. The meate with some of them could scant frame , by reason of their queazie stomackes. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 276. 21. To fit; accord. When thou hast turned them all ways, and done thy best to hew them and to make them frame, thou must be fain to cast them out. Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), p. 106. Sweet! then, while each thing doth frame , Take me to thee, and thee to me! Sir P. Sidney (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 563). My rude rhymes ill with thy verses frame . L. Bryskett (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 274). 31. To succeed in doing or trying to do something; manage. Said he, "Sae weel we frame , I think it is convenient That we should sing a psalm." Battle of Philip haugh (Child's Ballads, VIII. 133). Then said they unto Say now Shibboleth: and he said sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Judges xii. 6. 4. To wash ore with the aid of a frame.-5. To move. Davies. [Prov. Eng.] An oath, and a threat to set Throttler on me if I did not frame off, rewarded my perseverance. E. Brontë , Wuthering Heights, xiii. frame (fram), n. [ frame , a fabric, structure, also profit, advantage, benefit, freme , profit, advantage, benefit, = Icel. fra mi, advancement; from the verb.] 14. Profit; advantage; benefit. He made an aucter [altar) on Godes name, And sacrede he thor-on for sowles frame . Genesis and Exodus (E. È. T. S.), 1. 625. We trowe it is to our frame. Rob. of Brunne, tr. of Langtoft's Chron. (ed. Hearne), [p. 162. 2t. The act of planning or contriving; contrivance; invention. John the bastard, Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies. Shak., Much Ado, iv. 1. 3. Form, constitution, or structure in general; system; order: as, the frame of government. For then [at the last day] the present frame of things shall be di olved, and the bounds set to the more subtile and active parts of matter shall be taken away. Stilling fleet , Sermons, I. xi. The law of Moses, as distinguished from all other religious institutions, had nothing in the frame and design of it apt either to recommend it to its profe ors, or to invite proselytes. Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, I. iv. 4. Anything composed of parts fitted and united; fabric; structure: used especially of natural objects with reference to their physical struc Lyly , Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 85. ture or constitution. He hath a person, and a smooth dispose, To be suspected, fram'd to make women false. Shak ., Othello, i. 3. It is a happine to be born and framed unto virtue. Sir T. Browne , Religio Medici, ii. 2. It seems to me the little la is framing herself to some E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, II. 86. artifice. 4. To construct by fitting and uniting together the several parts; fabricate by union of const it- uent parts: as, to frame a house, a door, or a machine. First are two seates placed, or one so framed that two may sit in the same apart. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 191. A fairer creature never did Dame Nature ever frame. The Cruel Black (Child's Ballads, III. 370). 5. In general, to bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise. Exceedingly they troubled were in thought, Ne wist what answere unto him to frame . Spenser, Mother Hub. Tale, 1. 313. He began to frame the loveliest countenance he could. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. For thou art fram'd of the firm truth of valour. Shak ., Hen. V., iv. 3. Frame a Will; whereto you shall inscribe My master your sole heir. B. Jonson, Volpone, i. 1. This goodly frame , the earth, seems to me a steril prom- ontory. Shak., Hamlet, ii. 2. The very mould and frame of hand, nail, finger. Shak ., W. T., ii. 3 As you enter at the door, there is opposed to you the frame of a wolf in the hangings. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iii. 1. All thoughts, all pa ions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame , All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Cole ridge, Love. 5. The sustaining parts of a structure fitted and joined together; framework: as, the frame of a house, bridge, ship, or printing-pre . See cut on following page.-6. Any kind of case or structure made for admitting, inclosing, or supporting things, whether fixed or movable: as, the frame of a window, door, picture, or looking-gla . Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd Thy beauty's form in table of my heart; My body is the frame wherein 'tis held. Shak ., Sonnets, xxiv. The mill yawned all ruinous with unglazed frames . Charlotte Bronte , Shirley, xix. China has the frame of morals, but has no picture to place within it; it wants an ideal to give beauty to its own conception. Faiths of the World , p. 83. IMG:content-1790.png:[blocks in formation] Christianity is not so much a Divine institution as a Divine frame and temper of spirit. Jer . Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), II. 19. Your steady soul preserves her frame. Swift . I sat by his bed the whilst - He pa ed away in a ble ed frame. Scott , Kenilworth, i. Only in the gathered silence Of a calm and waiting frame Light and wisdom as from Heaven To the seeker came. Whittier , To 9. Shape; form; proportion. [Obsolete or ar- chaic.] 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 in forging. frame-house (frām'hous), n. 1. A house con- structed with a skeleton frame of timber cov- ered in with boards, and sometimes with shin- gles, etc.-21. A house in which framing or building is carried on. [Rare.] God's scholars have learned otherwise to think of the cro , that it is the frame - house in the which God frameth his children like to his Son Christ. frame-knitting (fram'nit"ing), n. A kind of weaving or knotting made upon pins fixed in a frame, and resembling, when finished, ord i- nary knitting. framele (fram'les), a . [ frame , n., + -le .] Having no frame. A couple of finished pictures... stood in one corner, framele . The Century , XXVIII. 541. frame-level (fram'level), n. A masons' level. E. H. Knight. framer (fra'mer), n. One who frames; a maker; a contriver. Almighty framer of the skies! O let our pure devotion rise Like incense in thy sight. frame-saw (fram'sa), n. A thin saw stretched in a frame to give it sufficient rigidity for work- frame-timber (fram'timber), n. One of the timbers constituting part of the frame of a house or a ve el. 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 Karli, proving that it was intended to be covered with wooden galleries and framework. J. Fergu on, Hist. Indian Arch., p. 130. 2. Structure; constitution; adjusted arrange- ment; system. Of youthful friends, on mind and art, And labour and the changing mart, And all the framework of the land. I come from the fine, froward, frampul lady, One was run mad with pride. IMG:content-1791.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1792.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-1793.jpg:[blocks in formation] coin given in the cut weighs about 217 grains, and was worth about one third as IMG:content-1794.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-1795.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1796.jpg:[blocks in formation] framing-chisel (fra'ming-chiz"el), n. In carp ., a heavy chisel used for making mortises. framing-table (fra'ming-tā"bl), n. an inclined table over one end of which is spread slime from the 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 a orting-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 proce in use in Cornwall, England, where, however, the simplest form of ore-dre ing has been nearly superseded by im- proved methods and machinery. See buddle2 and percus- sion - table . An' monie a friend that ki 'd his caup Is now a frammit wight. frampel, frampold (fram'pel, -põld), a . [Also written frampal , fra frampul , frampald , frampled , frampard , framfold , etc.; ffromfol , pa ion- 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 frampold horse, in such sort that he had need of a sharpe bit and short curb. Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 12. had always been discouraged by the nobility with disas- trous results on the field of battle, hence this under tak- ing on the part of the king, under whom the English were finally expelled from France. francht, v. t. [Appar. a var. of frunch ; cf. craunch, crunch.] To crunch with the teeth. I saw a river stopt with stormes of winde, Wherethrough a swan, a bull, a bore did pa e, Franching the fish and frie with teeth of bra e. In doubte is all our surete to deuise, And our noble and bli ed franchise Is full strangely changed into seruice. Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3745. Mulmutius whose repair and franchise IMG:content-1797.jpg:[blocks in formation] Your temples burned in their cement; and Your franchises , whereon you stood, conf in'd Into an auger's bore. IMG:content-1798.png:[blocks in formation] 4. The district or jurisdiction to which a particular individual or corporate privilege extends; the limits of an immunity. Whanne [he] came ther for moc he people he sent, The whiche held of his lordshippe and fraunche e, That the i shuld come to hym in eny wise. Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1273. Ye shall not suffer nor counsell any forynar to dwell withyn the franschys of this craft. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 317. At Worcester in 1466 the rule was that the members should be chosen openly in the Guildhall by the inhabitants of the franchise. Stubbs , Const. Hist., § 422. 5. An asylum or sanctuary where persons are secure from arrest. Churches and monasteries in Spain are franchises for criminals. London Encyc . 6t. Nobility of spirit; generosity; high mindedne ; magnanimity; liberality. Heer may ye se how excellent franchise In wommen is whan they hem narwe avyse. Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 743. Yef we be take or slain, the harme is owres and the and ther-fore remembre vs of pitee shame youres, and of youre grete fraunchise. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 280. Corporate franchise. See def. 2.- Elective franchise. See def. 3. - Franchise Bill, a bill for the regulation of the rights of suffrage in a parliamentary or other election; specifically, in Eng. hist., a bill pa ed in 1884, greatly extending the number of voters in elections for Parliament, particularly in the boroughs. - Parliamentary franchise of a borough or county, the right to send representatives to Parliament. [Eng.] franchise (fran'chiz or -chiz), v. t.; pret. and pp. franchised, ppr franchising. [ME. franchisen, fraunchisen, And to the sonnes of Aaron they gaue the franchysed cytyes Hebron and Lobnah, wyth their suburbes. Bible of 1551, 1 Chron. vi. 57. So I lose none [honor] In seeking to augment it, but still keep My bosom franc his'd and allegiance clear, I shall be counsell'd. Shak ., Macbeth, ii. 1.