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Having the frames, stem, and sternpost adjusted; -- said of a ship on the stocks.

Of or pertaining to the interval or zone along the sea bottom, at the depth of between fifty and one hundred fathoms. E. Forbes.

To anagrammatize. Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus. Warburton.

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

A transverse frame of a framed structure.

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

ving (such) bones; -- used in composition; as, big-boned; strong-boned. No big-boned men framed of the Cyclops' size. Shak.

died; inconsiderate; spontaneouse; rash; as, a careless throw; a careless expression. He framed the careless rhyme. Beatie.

An assemblage of pieces of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.

One of the joists framed between a pair of girders in naked flooring.

A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive.

One of many laths used in preparing one side of a partition or framed wall, when the other side has been covered in and finished.

A pair of rafters framed together with a tie fixed at their feet, or with a collar beam. [Engl.]

A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise.

ed by parapet walls. -- Deck transom (Shipbuilding), the transom into which the deck is framed. -- To clear the decks (Naut.), to remove every unnecessary incumbrance in preparation for battle; to prepare for action. -- To sweep the deck (Card Playing), to clear off all the stakes on the table by winning them.…

A member, in a framed structure, running obliquely across a panel.

ing joists support flooring joists above and ceiling joists below. See Illust. of Double-framed floor. -- Double flower. See Double, a., 4. -- Double-framed floor (Arch.), a double floor having girders into which the binding joists are framed. -- Double fugue (Mus.), a fugue on two subjects. -- Double letter. (a) (…

Ebony. [Poetic] "Framed of ebon and ivory." Sir W. Scott.

A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto.

Capable of being framed.