Definition of frame

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Frame (n.) The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels.

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Architecture :: Architecture (n.) Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship..
Rave :: Rave (n.) One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
Gauntry :: Gauntry (n.) A scaffolding or frame carrying a crane or other structure.
Pillory :: Pillory (n.) A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it..
Coamings :: Coamings (n. pl.) Raised pieces of wood of iron around a hatchway, skylight, or other opening in the deck, to prevent water from running bellow; esp. the fore-and-aft pieces of a hatchway frame as distinguished from the transverse head ledges..
Stilet :: Stile (v. i.) One of the upright pieces in a frame; one of the primary members of a frame, into which the secondary members are mortised..
Fly :: Fly (v. i.) The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn..
Cradle :: Cradle (n.) A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship..
Truck :: Truck (v. i.) A swiveling carriage, consisting of a frame with one or more pairs of wheels and the necessary boxes, springs, etc., to carry and guide one end of a locomotive or a car; -- sometimes called bogie in England. Trucks usually have four or six wheels..
Companion :: Companion (n.) A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck..
Yoke :: Yoke (n.) A frame or piece resembling a yoke, as in use or shape..
Tatta :: Tatta (n.) A bamboo frame or trellis hung at a door or window of a house, over which water is suffered to trickle, in order to moisten and cool the air as it enters..
Frame :: Frame (v. t.) To provide with a frame, as a picture..
Equanimous :: Equanimous (a.) Of an even, composed frame of mind; of a steady temper; not easily elated or depressed..
Cancer :: Cancer (n.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework..
Inframedian :: Inframedian (a.) Of or pertaining to the interval or zone along the sea bottom, at the depth of between fifty and one hundred fathoms..
Frame :: Frame (v. t.) To cause; to bring about; to produce.
Sight :: Sight (v. t.) In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame or the like, the open space, the opening..
Compaginate :: Compaginate (v. t.) To unite or hold together; as, the side pieces compaginate the frame..
Frame :: Frame (v. t.) To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts of one member to fit parts of another. See Dovetail, Halve, v. t., Miter, Tenon, Tooth, Tusk, Scarf, and Splice..
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