n. [ L., a framer. ] An apparatus for taking the conformation of anything, as of the head for fitting a hat, or, in craniometry, finding the largest horizontal area of the head. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
a. Full of, or conveying, information; instructive. [ R. ] London Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
Magistrates may send juvenile offenders to reformatories instead of to prisons. Eng. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Tending to produce reformation; reformative. [ 1913 Webster ]