framboys, framboise

[Fr. framboise=a raspberry (the fruit); framboisier =(the bush).] Bot.: The raspberry, Rubus idœus. framboys-berry, s. Bot.: The same as FRAMBOYS (q. v.). ( Britten & Holland .) frame, *fram-i-en, *frem-en, *frem-1-an, v . t . & i. [A. S. fremman to promote, to effect, from fram , from =strong; Icel. fremja =to further, from framr =forward, frami =advancement; Sw.främja; Dan. fremme.] A. Transitive : *1. To benefit, to advantage; to be of use or profit to. "Al that eauer godd iseoth that ham wule framien." Hali Meidenhad, p. 29. *2. To strengthen, to aid. "Thor ghe gan fremen Ysmael With water drine and bredes mel." Genesis and Exodus , 1,245, *3. To fulfill, to carry out, to effect, to promote. "His ayene wille to fremen."-0. Eng. Homilies , ii. 195. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; IMG:content-0101.png:[blocks in formation] 7. To fit, regulate, or adjust for a specific end; to shape, to conform. (Physically and morally.) "Frame your mind to mirth." Shakesp.: Taming of the Shrew , induct. ii. *8. To compose, to make. "Let us consider the secret reasons which Virgil had for thus framing this noble episode." -Dryden: Virgil's Eneid . (Dedic.) *9. To cause, to beget, to produce, to breed. "Fear frames disorder." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt . II., v. 2. 10. To form in the mind. "How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years." -Watts . 11. To contrive, to plan, to devise. "Unpardonable the presumption and insolence in contriving and framing this letter was."-Clarendon. 12. To invent, to fabricate (in a bad sense). "Astronomers to solve the phenomena, framed to their conceit eccentrics and epicycles."- Bacon . 13. To invest or surround with a frame, as a picture. "Neither modeled, glazed, or framed." Tennyson: Vision of Sin, 188. *14. To move, to set in motion. "So faint and feeble were, that they ne might Endure to travell, nor one foote to frame .'" Spenser F. Q., VI. v. 40. IMG:content-0102.png:[blocks in formation] 5. The skeleton of a structure; the framework. [ΙΙ. 1.] 6. Anything made as a case or structure to inclose or admit something else; as, the frame of a door, a window, a picture, . "Vertue mentions having seen a fine miniature of Henry VIII., and his three children, but does not say where; it had a gla over it, and a frame curiously carved."- Walpole : Anecdotes of Painting , vol. i., ch. iv. *7. The act of planning, devising, or contriving; contrivance. "John the Bastard, Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies." Shakesp.: Much Ado about Nothing , iv. 1. *8. A scheme, form, order, or arrangement. "Another party did resolve to change the whole frame of the government, in state as well as church."-Claren don. The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia 10. Shape, form, proportion. "Put your discourse into some frame." Shakesp.: Hamlet, iii. 2. 11. A particular state or condition, as of the mind; disposition, mental constitution; as, a happy frame of mind. II. Technically : 1. Carpentry: (1) The skeleton structure of a wooden building, II. Figuratively : 1916 1. The structure, constitution, arrangement, or disposition of the parts of a thing. "In this popular Hindu tale, we have the framework of one of the greatest epics of any age or country."- Cox : Introd. to Mythology , p. 5. 2. A body composed of pieces framed or fitted together; a compound body. "A staunch and solid piece of framework , as any Janu rafters, with the studding that is to form partitions. (2) The outward work inclosing a door or window. (3) The part of a door or window inclosing panels. (4) A border or inclosure for a picture, or panes of gla . 2. Embroidery : A structure of four bars arranged in a square and adjustable in size, on which cloth or other fabric is stretched for quilting, embroidery, . 3. Foundry : A kind of ledge inclosing a board, which, being filled with wet sand, serves as a mold for castings. 4. Hor .: That which contains the mechanism of a watch or clock. It consists of two plates, and usually four pillars. 5. Horticulture : (1) A glazed portable structure for protecting young plants from the effects of frosts. (2) A sash-roofed box, used by gardeners for propagating. 6. Mach .: A term applied to machines built upon or within a framework of timbers, e . g ., the stocking frame, lace-frame, water-frame, silk-frame, . 7. Min .: A framing-table (q. v.). 8. Print.: A stand supporting the cases used by a compositor. [CASE (1), s ., II. 1.] 9. Ship build .: The framework or skeleton of a ship. 10. Soap - making : A box whose sides are remov able when required, and locked together when the soap is to be poured in. As soon as the soap has acquired sufficient solidity, the sides are unlocked and taken down, exposing the block of soap, which is then cut up by wires which are pa ed through it to divide it into bars. 11. Steam -eng.: The strong work which supports the engine and boilers of a locomotive upon the wheels, and known as inside frame or outside frame, according to the position of the wheels relatively to the frame. 12. Weav.: The head of a batten in a loom. Crabb thus discriminates between frame , tem per , temperament , and constitution : " Frame in its natural sense is that which forms the exterior edging of anything, and consequently determines its form; it is applied to man physically or mentally, as denoting that constituent portion of him which seems to hold the rest together; which by an exten sion of the metaphor is likewise put for the whole contents, the whole body, or the whole mind. Tem per and temperament signify the particular modes of being disposed or organized. Frame , when applied to the body, is taken in its most universal sense; as when we speak of the frame being violently agitated, or the human frame being wonderfully constituted; when applied to the mind it will admit either of a general or restricted signification. Temper , which is applicable only to the mind, is taken in the general or particular state of the individual: temperament and constitution mark the general state of the individual; the former comprehends a mixture of the physical and mental; the latter has a purely physical application." ( Crabb : Eng. Synon.)