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Frame of Mind

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Disposition. A printer’s frame is a stand on which the type is disposed; a founder’s frame is a mould into which molten metal is disposed or poured; a weaver’s frame is a loom where the silk or thread is disposed or stretched for quilting, etc.; a picture frame is an ornamental edging within which the picture is disposed; a mental frame, therefore, is the boundary within which the feelings of the mind are disposed. (Anglo-Saxon, fremm-an.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Fox-tail
Fox’s Sleep (A)
Foxed
Foxglove
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Foxy
Fra Diavolo (Michele Pozza)
Fracassus
Fradubio [Brother Doubt]
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France
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Francesca da Rimini
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Franciscans
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