Word Meanings - ENFRAME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To inclose, as in a frame.

Related words: (words related to ENFRAME)

• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
• INCLOSE
  Etym: 1. To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls. How many evils have inclosed me round! Milton. 2. To put within a case,
• FRAMEWORK
  1. The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society. A staunch and solid piece of framework. Milton. 2. Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom.
• FRAMER
  One who frames; as, the framer of a building; the framers of the Constitution.
• FRAME-UP
  A conspiracy or plot, esp. for a malicious or evil purpose, as to incriminate a person on false evidence.
• FRAME
  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,
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• INFRAMEDIAN
  Of or pertaining to the interval or zone along the sea bottom, at the depth of between fifty and one hundred fathoms. E. Forbes.
• REFRAME
  To frame again or anew.
• ENFRAME
  To inclose, as in a frame.
• MISFRAME
  To frame wrongly.
• HOGFRAME
  A trussed frame extending fore and aft, usually above deck, and intended to increase the longitudinal strength and stiffness. Used chiefly in American river and lake steamers. Called also hogging frame, and hogback.
• RESISTANCE FRAME
  A rheostat consisting of an open frame on which are stretched spirals of wire. Being freely exposed to the air, they radiate heat rapidly.
• BOTTLE-NECK FRAME
  An inswept frame.
• DISINCLOSE
  To free from being inclosed.
• WATER FRAME
  A name given to the first power spinning machine, because driven by water power.