joinery, a kind of case, wherein a thing is set or inclosed, or even supported; as a window-frame, a picture-frame, &c.

Frame is also a machine used in divers arts; as,

Frame, among printers, is the stand which supports the cases. See Case.

Frame, among founders, a kind of ledge inclosing a board; which, being filled with wetted sand, serves as a mould to cast their works in. See Foundry.

Frame is more particularly used for a sort of loom, whereon artificers stretch their linens, silks, flutes, &c., to be embroidered, quilted, or the like.

Frames, among painters, a kind of square, consisting of four long slips of wood joined together, whose intermediate space is divided by threads into several little squares like a net; and hence sometimes called reticula. It serves to reduce figures from great to small; or, on the contrary, to augment their size from small to great.