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Show eafily decaying {ualties fubje® to ca- 6. 'To form and digeft by thought eafily deftroyed The moft abftrufe ideas are onl derftanding frames to itfelf, by joining together idea I know my body's of fo frai/a kind As force, without {evers within can kill Whe wit car we have raifed a that it had either from objeés of fenfe or from it Locke own operations about them Full of that flame his tender fcenes he warms And frames his goddefs by your matchlefs charms Granville Dawvies imaginar of happinefs, we find, at laft, that the matreafur terials of the ftruture are frai/ and perifhing, an Rogers the foundation itfelf is laid in the fand 2. Weak of refolution; liabl {fedu@ion The truly virtuou is told them of thei do amifs, then ma frai/, and prone t "fail in words inftability Weaknefs all the frailze/fes an is nothing amon Ther uncertainties of this fublunary world {o tottering an Norris unftable as the virtue of a coward ¥ra'tLry. 2. [ [from frail. 1. Weaknefs of refolution; inftability o mind; infirmity Though Page be a fecure fool, and ftands o firml on his wife's fiailty, yet I cannot put off my opinio {o eafily Nor fhould'ft tho -have trufte Shakefpeare that to woman' Sfrailty Ere I -to. thee, thou to thyfelf waft cruel "Go knows our frailty Milton pities our weaknefs an requires of us no more than we are able to do. Lacke 2 Fault proceeding from weaknefs fins o infirmity : in this fenfe it has a plural Love did his reafon blind Dryd And love's the nobleft frailty of the mind Kind wits will thofe light faults excufe "Thofe are the common frailties of the mufe. Dryd Death, only death; can break the lafting chain And here, ev'n then, fhall my cold duft remain Yere all its frailties, all its James refign Pope And wait, *till 'tis no fin to u:1y with thine. That Chriftians are now not only like other me in their frailties and infirmities, might be in fom degree excufable; but the complaint is, they are lik heathens in all the main and chief articles of thei lives Law FRAI'SCHEUR. n. /. [French.] Frefhnefs coolnefs. A word foolithly innovated b Dryden Hither in Summer-evenings you repair To tafte the fraifch ofu the purer air Dryden FRAISE. . /. [French, the caul of a animal. A pancake with bacon in it 7o FRAME «. a 1. To form or fabricate by orderly conftruétion and union of various parts The double gates he findeth locked faft The one fair fram'd of burnifh'd ivory The other ai with filver overcaft 2. 'To fit to one another Spenfer 3. To make; to compofe Then chufing out fesv words moft horrible "Thereof did verfes frame Spenfer Vight valiantly to-day And yetT do thee wrong to mind thee of it For thou art fram' of the firm truth of valour. Shak toadjuft Let us notdeceive ourfelves by pretending to thi excellent knowledge of Chrift Jefus our Lord, i we do not. frame our lives according to it. Lillotfon 5. To form any rule or method by ftudy o precept Thou art their foldier, and, being bred in broils Haft not the foft way; but thou wilt fram Thyfelf forfooth hereafter theirs. Shakef. Coriolanus I have been a truant to the law I never yet could frame my will to it Aad thegefore frame the law unto iy will An fure he will for wifdom never lies Lope How many excellent reafonings are framed in th mind of a man of wifdom and {tudy in a length o 7 years Watts To contrive; to plan Unpardonabl th prefumption and infolence i contriving and framing this letter was 8. To {ettle Clarendon to fcheme out Though I cannot make truc wars Il frame converieat peaGe Shakefp. Coriclanus 9. To Invent %o fabricate, in a bad fenfe as, to frame a ftoiy or lie Aftronomers to folv the phanomena to their conceit eccentricksand epicycles frame Bacoz Frame. 7 /. [from the verb. 1. A fabrick; any thing conftru@ed of various garts or members Shakefp Fra'mpovrp, #. /. ['This word is written b Dr Hacker original. croflgrained Jrampul Peevifh 1 kno no it boifterous ; rugged _ Her hutband! Alas, the fweet woman leads an il life with him: fhe leads a very Srampold life wit him Shakefpeare The frampu! man could not be pacified I'/chei FRA/NCHISE. #. /. [ frauchife, French. 1. Exemption from any onerous duty 2. Privilege; immunity right granted They granted them markets, and other Sranchifes, and ereked corporate towns among them Davies on Irelard His gracious edict the fame franchife yield To all the wild increafe of woods and fields, Dryden 3. Diftri¢t; exo tju eif niG ton Ther are other privileges granted unt mof o the corporations, that they fhall not be travelle forth of their own franchifes. Spenfer's State of Irel 7o Francut'se @. o [from the noun. To enfranchife; to mak free free; to kee I lofe no honou In feeking to augment it; but ftill kee If the frame of the heavenly arch fhould diffolve (i My bofom franchis'd, and allegiance clear. Shakefp itfelf, if celeftial fpheres fhould forget their wonted Fra'Ne1BLE. adj. [ frangs, Latin.] Fragile motions and by irregular volubility, turn themfelve any way, "as it might happen Caftles made of trees upon frame wit turrets and arches were anciently matter magnificence Thefe are thy glorious works Almighty Hooker of timber o Bacon parent of good thine this univerfal frame Milton Divine Cecilia came Inventrefs of the vocal frame Dryden The gate was adamant ; eternal frane Which, hew'd by Mars himfelf, from Indian quar ries came The labour of a god; and all alon Tough Iron plates were clench'd to make it ftrong Dryden We fee this vaft frame of the world, and a innumerable multitude of creatures in it; all whic we, who believe a God, attribute to him as th author Tillotfon brittle; eafily broken Thoug before it b Jrangible it feems the folideft wood, if wrough well feafoned it wil fhew itfelf ver Boyle Era'wrow. z. /. [Of this word I know no the derivation. A paramour; a boo companion Firft, by her fide did fit the bold Sanfloy Fit mate for fuch a mincing minion Who in her loofenefs took exceeding joy Might not be found a franker franion ~Fairy Q FRANK. adj. [ franc, French. 1. Liberal ; generous ; not niggardly Th moifter forts of trees yield Iittle mofs, fo the reafon of the frazk putting up of the fap int the boughs Bacon They were left deftitute, either by narrow provi 2. Any thing made {0 as to inclofe or admi fomething elfe fion, or by their frazk hearts and their open hands and their charity towards others Spratt's Sermons Put both the tube and the veffel it leaned o into a convenient wooden fraze, to keep them fro mifchances Boyle His picture fearcelyjwould deferve a frame. Dryd A globe of glafs, about eight or ten inches i diameter, being put into a frame where it may b frank. of civilities that coft them nothing. . L' Effr {wiftly turned roun its axis, will, in turning, fhine where it rubs againft the palm of one's hand. Newwtoz 3. Order; regularity; adjufted feries or difpofition They rather cut down their timber to_frame it and to do neceflaries to their convenient ufe, than t fight Abbot Hew timber, faw it, frame it, and fet it together Mortimer 4. To regulate Urge him with truth to frame his fure replies to errour o do not eafily credit evil tha neighbours; for if others ma thefe alfo fpeak amifs: man i evil, and therefore may foo Taylor's Guide to Devotion FraiLwess. z /. [from frail. as the un fuc 1. Weak FR FR FR A woman, that is like a German clock Still a repairing, ever out of frame And never going aright Shake[peare Your fteddy foul preferves her frame In good and evil times the fame 4. Scheme order Saift Another party did refolve to change the whol Jrame of the government in ftate as well as church Clarendon 5. Contrivance projection John the Baftard Whofe fpirits toil in frame of villanies, Shakefpeare 6. Mechanical conftruétion 7. Shape form Fra'mer Saxon. {chemer 2. [from frame Maker former the ordinary pra@ice o Thou hatt it won; for itis of frank gift And he will care for all the reft to fhift. Hubberd 4. Not reftrained contriver The forger of his own fate, the framer 'of hi fortune, fhould be improper, if a&ions were predetermined Hammond There was want of accuratencfs in experiments i the fuft original framer of thofe medals. Arbuthnot licentious Not in ufe Might not be found a franker franion Spenfer Frank. z /. [from the adjeiive. 1. A place to feed hogs in; a fty: {o calle from liberality of food Where fups he old frank Doth the old boar feed in th Shakefpeare's Henry 1V 2. A letter which pays no poftage Youw'll have immediately, by feveral franks, m epifile to lord Cobham Pope to Swift 3. A French coin 7o FraNK, w. 2. [from the noun. 1. Tothutupina frank or fty. Hanmer In the fty of this moft blocdy boar My fon George Stanlyis frank'd up in hold. Shak 2. To feed high to fat; to cram d'z){/fworl/) the adje@ive. ters fro yFnemman world to b 3. Without conditions; without payment 3. [Fro Hudibyras th 2. Open; ingenuous; fincere; not referved an proportion A bear's a favage beaft Whelp'd without form, until the da Has lick'd it into fhape and frame 'Ti Jumiu To exempt let poftage My lord Orrery writes to you to-morrow; an you fee [ fend this under his cover, or at leaf franked by him Saift Gazettes fent gratis down, and frazk''d For which thy patron's weekly thank'd Pope Frankarmor'cxe. # /i ‘The fame whic we in Latin call Zbera eleemofyna, or fre alms in Englifh; whence that tenur i commonl know among our Englif lawyer |