in Joinery, a kind of case, wherein a thing is set or enclosed, or even supported; as a window frame, a picture frame, &c.

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

among printers, is the stand which supports the cases. See CASE.

among founders, a kind of ledge enclosing 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, stuffs, &c. to be embroidered, quilted, or the like.

Frame, 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.