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A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.

One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer. "Artificer of fraud." Milton. The great Artificer of all that moves. Cowper.

Patterned after one's self. The conception which any one frames of another's mind is more or less after the pattern of his own mind, -- is automorphic. H. Spenser.

A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures, mirrors, etc.

The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.

A pole or a frame raised as a sea beacon or a landmark.

the mouth of a pictured figure. Air balloon, a balloon for aërial navigation. -- Balloon frame (Carp.), a house frame constructed altogether of small timber. -- Balloon net, a variety of woven lace in which the weft threads are twisted in a peculiar manner around the warp.

To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron. They use little or no salt, but barbecue their game and fish in the smoke. Stedman.

Exciting contention; contentious. [Obs.] "It did bateful question frame. " Sidney.

f a wall or of a bank; receding slope. Batter rule, an instrument consisting of a rule or frame, and a plumb line, by which the batter or slope of a wall is regulated in building.

or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation; connection. But of this frame, the bearings and the ties, The strong connections, nice dependencies. Pope.

A framework for supporting a bed.

The front or the back part of the frame of a bedstead. [Obs. or Dial. Eng.]

nerally called wales. They have the beams, knees, and foothooks bolted to them. Also, the frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides; as, the midship bend.

A transverse frame of a framed structure.

A portable boat made of skins stretched on a frame. [Alaska] The Century.

A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.

A box, frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle for any commodity; as, a corn bin; a wine bin; a coal bin.

main timber in double flooring. -- Binding joist (Arch.), the secondary timber in double-framed flooring.

g stock, consisting of two ordinary axle boxes sliding in guides attached to a triangular frame; -- called also pony truck.