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jured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick. If success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends. Pope.

Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; -- applied to persons or things. I. Taylor. -- Fraud"ful*ly, adv.

Free from fraud. -- Fraud"less*ly, adv. -- Fraud"less*ness, n.

The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness. Hooker.

Using fraud; trickly; deceitful; dishonest.

In a fraudulent manner.

Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged. A vessel of our country richly fraught. Shak. A discourse fraught with all the commending excellences oSouth. Enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits. I. Taylor.

Freight; loading; cargo. [Obs.] Shak.

Constituting the freight or cargo. [Obs.] "The fraughting souls within her." Shak.

In Germany, a young lady; an unmarried woman; -- as a title, equivalent to Miss.

nes of the solar spectrum, so called because first accurately observed and interpreted by Fraunhofer, a German physicist.

lorless crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, and found in the bark of the ash (Fraxinus) and along with esculin in the bark of the horse-chestnut. It shows a delicate fluorescence in alkaline solutions; -- called also paviin.

A genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north temperate zone, and including the true ash trees.

Affray; broil; contest; combat. Who began this bloody fray Shak.

The skin which a deer frays from his horns. B. Jonson.

To fray; to wear or pull into tatters or tag ends; to tatter; - -used literally and figuratively. [Prov. Eng. & U. S.]

To make free; to enfranchise. Johnson.

The act of making free; enfranchisement. [R.]

To strike, or strike down. [Obs.] Spenser.

To startle from quiet; to alarm. Smale foules a great heap That had afrayed [affrayed] me out of my sleep. Chaucer.