vbl. sb. [f. FRAME v. + -ING1.] The action of FRAME v. in various senses. † 1. The action of making profit. Obs.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 176/2. Framynge or afframynge or wynnynge, lucrum, emolumentum.

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  2.  The action, method, or process of constructing, making, or shaping anything whether material or immaterial; † also, hewing of timber (obs.). Also gerundial with omission of in.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 176/2. Framynge of tymbyr, dolatura.

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a. 1569.  Kingesmyll, Mans Est., ix. (1580), 45. There is a stone framyng, it shall be laied in Sion.

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1633.  P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., III. iii.

            Too well I know my rudeness, all unfit
    To frame this curious Isle, whose framing yet
Was never throughly known to any humane wit.

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1697.  Dampier, Voy., I. vii. 189. She [a Fire ship] was not well made, though Captain Bond had the framing and management of it.

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1703.  Moxon, Mech. Exerc., 123. To pin the Frame of a Floor, or Frame of a Roof together, whilst it is framing.

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1867.  Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Framing. The placing, scarphing, and bolting of the frame-timbers of a ship.

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1883.  Manch. Exam., 16 June, 4/7. The clause in dispute was of Lord Salisbury’s own framing.

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  3.  Mining. See quot. and cf. framing-table.

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1874.  Knight, Dict. Mech., I. 913/2. Framing.… 2. (Mining.) An operation upon pounded or stamped ores by which they are sorted into grades of comparative weight and consequent richness.

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  4.  concr. Framed work; a framework; a frame or set or system of frames.

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1703.  T. N., City & C. Purchaser, 142. The Timber … to make 3 Square of Framing.

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1823.  Scoresby, Jrnl. Whale Fishery, 455. The pressure was so strong, that the pannels of the captain’s state-room door were forced out of the framing.

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1828.  Tredgold, Elem. Princ. Carpentery, title-p., Pressure and Equilibrium of Timber Framing.

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1886.  Pall Mall G., 22 July, 4/2. Walls of bamboo framing filled in with mud.

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  5.  attrib., as framing-house, -timber; also framing-chisel, a heavy chisel for making mortises; framing-table Mining (see quot. and sense 3).

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1874.  Knight, Dict. Mech., I. 914/1. *Framing-chisel.

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1583.  Hollyband, Campo di Fior, 57. The colledge … is the *framing house, and as it were, The shoppe of men.

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1874.  Knight, Dict. Mech., I. 913/2. The *framing-table is eight feet long, four feet wide, and has a ledge around it. It is suspended in an inclined position, on pivots, so that it may be tipped into a vertical position when full, discharging its contents into separate cisterns beneath.

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1522.  Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 184. Le *framyng tymbre.

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