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One engaged in an affray.

Affray. [Obs.] Spenser.

Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive. [Afraid comes after the noun it limits.] "Back they recoiled, afraid." Milton.

Anfractuous; as, anfractuose anthers.

A state of being anfractuous, or full of windings and turnings; sinuosity. The anfractuosities of his intellect and temper. Macaulay.

Winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous; as, the anfractuous spires of a born. -- An*frac"tu*ous*ness, n.

A mazy winding.

An inswept frame. [Colloq.]

Broken in pieces; severed. [Obs.]

Broken; uneven. [Obs.] "Confragose cataracts." Evelyn.

A society or body of men united for some purpose, or in some profession; a brotherhood.

to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld. We have defrauded no man. 2 Cor. vii. 2. Churches seem injured and defrauded of their rights. Hooker.

The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

One who defrauds; a cheat; an embezzler; a peculator.

Privation by fraud; defrauding. [Obs.] Milton.

de for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc. For the discharge of his expenses, and defraying his cost, he allowed him . . . four times as much. Usher.

The act of defraying; payment; as, the defrayal of necessary costs.

One who pays off expenses.

Payment of charges.

To break or separate into parts; to deflect, or decompose by deflection, a