in Joinery, a kind of case, in which a thing is set or enclosed, or even supported; as a window frame, a picture frame, and the like.

among printers, is the stand which supports the cases.

among founders, is a kind of ledge enclosing a board, which, being filled with wetted sand, serves as a mould to cast their works in.

FRAME is more particularly used for a sort of loom, on which artificers stretch their linens, silks, or stuffs, to be embroidered, quilted, or the like.

among painters, is a kind of square, consisting of four long slips of wood joined together, whilst the 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 to augment their size from small to great.

FRAMLINGHAM, a market-town of the county of Suffolk, of the hundred of Loes, eighty-eight miles from London. It is an ancient but well-built town, situated on an elevated spot, near which is the source of the river Ore. There are ruins of an ancient castle, supposed to have been built by the Saxons, the walls of which are forty-four feet in height, and eight in thickness. This castle was the residence of Queen Mary in 1553. The church is a handsome building, constructed of black flints. The market-place is large, and on Saturday well supplied. The population amounted in 1801 to 1854, in 1811 to 1834, in 1821 to 2327, and in 1831 to 2445.

FRAMMERSBACH, a bailiwick of the circle of the Lower Maine, in the kingdom of Bavaria, extending over seventy square miles. It contains one city, thirty villages, and 764 scattered single houses, with 4650 inhabitants. The city of the same name is situated on the Lahn, and contains 452 houses, and 2460 inhabitants.

FRAMPTON ON SEVERN, a town of Gloucestershire, in the hundred of Whitstone, 108 miles from London. There is here a considerable manufactory of iron and wire. At high tides the river Severn occasionally floods a large part of the parish. The population amounted in 1801 to 860, in 1811 to 864, in 1821 to 996, and in 1831 to 1055.