Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The frame, usually of metal, which holds the lenses of a pair of spectacles.
- noun In iron ship-building, a cast-steel frame projecting from each side of the stern of a twin-screw steamer which supports the stern-bearings of the propeller-shaft-in vessels of a form in which the hull of the vessel is bossed out to cover the whole screw- shaft. The spectacle-frame forms the after termination of the bossed-out part of the hull.
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Examples
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The system comprises the implant and an external transmitter integrated in a spectacle-frame.
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Grafton was without glasses -- a Mauser had furrowed the skin on the bridge of his nose, breaking his spectacle-frame so that one glass dropped on one side of his nose and the other on the other.
Crittenden A Kentucky Story of Love and War John Fox 1891
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