Word Meanings - UNFRAME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.

Related words: (words related to UNFRAME)

• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• APARTMENT HOUSE
  A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.
• APARTNESS
  The quality of standing apart.
• FRAMEWORK
  1. The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society. A staunch and solid piece of framework. Milton. 2. Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom.
• APARTMENT
  appartare to separate, set apart; all fr. L. ad + pars, partis, part. 1. A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding. 2. A set or suite of rooms. De Quincey. 3. A compartment. Pope.
• FRAMER
  One who frames; as, the framer of a building; the framers of the Constitution.
• FRAME-UP
  A conspiracy or plot, esp. for a malicious or evil purpose, as to incriminate a person on false evidence.
• DESTROY
  destruire, F. détruire, fr. L. destruere, destructum; de + struere to 1. To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish. But ye shall destroy
• FRAME
  1. To shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech. Judg. xii. 2. To proceed; to go. The bauty of this sinful dame Made many princes thither frame. Shak.
• DESTROYER
  One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.
• APART
  1. Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside. Others apart sat on a hill retired. Milton. The Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself. Ps. iv. 3. 2. In a state of separation, of exclusion,
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
  A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.
• INFRAMEDIAN
  Of or pertaining to the interval or zone along the sea bottom, at the depth of between fifty and one hundred fathoms. E. Forbes.
• REFRAME
  To frame again or anew.
• ENFRAME
  To inclose, as in a frame.
• MISFRAME
  To frame wrongly.
• BONAPARTISM
  The policy of Bonaparte or of the Bonapartes.
• HOGFRAME
  A trussed frame extending fore and aft, usually above deck, and intended to increase the longitudinal strength and stiffness. Used chiefly in American river and lake steamers. Called also hogging frame, and hogback.
• RESISTANCE FRAME
  A rheostat consisting of an open frame on which are stretched spirals of wire. Being freely exposed to the air, they radiate heat rapidly.
• BONAPARTIST
  One attached to the policy or family of Bonaparte, or of the Bonapartes.
• BOTTLE-NECK FRAME
  An inswept frame.