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Frame [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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

8. Your steady soul preserves her frame

9. Form; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as a frame of government.

10. Contrivance; projection.

11. John the bastard, whose spirits toil in frame of villainies.

12. Shape; form; proportion.

Frame [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To contrive. Judges 12:6 .

Frame [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

4. For thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.

5. To regulate; to adjust; to shape; to conform; as, to frame our lives according to the rules of the gospel.

6. To form and digest by thought; as, to frame ideas in the mind.

7. How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years!

8. To contrive; to plan; to devise; as, to frame a project or design.

9. To invent; to fabricate, in a bad sense; as, to frame a story or lie.

Frame [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure; esp., the constructional system, whether of timber or metal, that gives to a building, vessel, etc., its model and strength; the skeleton of a structure.

2. The bodily structure; physical constitution; make or build of a person.

3. A kind of open case or structure made for admitting, inclosing, or supporting things, as that which incloses or contains a window, door, picture, etc.; that on which anything is held or stretched

4. The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels.

5. A molding box or flask, which being filled with sand serves as a mold for castings.

6. The ribs and stretchers of an umbrella or other structure with a fabric covering.

7. A structure of four bars, adjustable in size, on which cloth, etc., is stretched for quilting, embroidery, etc.

8. A glazed portable structure for protecting young plants from frost.

9. A stand to support the type cases for use by the compositor.

10. A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc.

11. Form; shape; proportion; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as, a frameof government.

12. Particular state or disposition, as of the mind; humor; temper; mood; as, to be always in a happy frame.

13. Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.

Frame [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech.

2. To proceed; to go.

Frame [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false.

3. To fit to something else, or for some specific end; to adjust; to regulate; to shape; to conform.

4. To cause; to bring about; to produce.

5. To support.

6. To provide with a frame, as a picture.

Framed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Fitted and united in due form; made; composed; devised; adjusted.

Framed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Frame

Framer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who frames; a maker; a contriver.

Framer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who frames; as, the framer of a building; the framers of the Constitution.

Framework [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Work done in a frame.

Framework [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society.

2. Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom.

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Exodus 26:15

And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.

You are to construct upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.

Exodus 26:16

Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.

Each frame is to be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

Exodus 26:17

Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

Two tenons must be connected to each other for each frame. Make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.

Exodus 26:18

And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.

Construct twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle,

Exodus 26:19

And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.

with forty silver bases under the twenty frames—two bases for each frame, one under each tenon.

Exodus 26:20

And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:

For the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, make twenty frames

Exodus 26:21

And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

and forty silver bases—two bases under each frame.

Exodus 26:22

And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.

Make six frames for the rear of the tabernacle, the west side,

Exodus 26:23

And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.

and two frames for the two back corners of the tabernacle,

Exodus 26:25

And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

So there are to be eight frames and sixteen silver bases—two under each frame.

Exodus 26:26

And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

You are also to make five crossbars of acacia wood for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,

Exodus 26:28

And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.

The central crossbar in the middle of the frames shall extend from one end to the other.

Exodus 26:29

And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.

Overlay the frames with gold and make gold rings to hold the crossbars. Also overlay the crossbars with gold.

Exodus 35:11

The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,

the tabernacle with its tent and covering, its clasps and frames, its crossbars, posts, and bases;

Exodus 36:20

And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.

Next, he constructed upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.

Exodus 36:21

The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.

Each frame was ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

Exodus 36:22

One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

Two tenons were connected to each other for each frame. He made all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.

Exodus 36:23

And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:

He constructed twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle,

Exodus 36:24

And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.

with forty silver bases to put under the twenty frames—two bases for each frame, one under each tenon.

Exodus 36:25

And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, he made twenty boards,

For the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, he made twenty frames