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In Germany, a woman; a married woman; a wife; -- as a title, equivalent to Mrs., Madam.

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.

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.

Not fraught; not burdened.

mpanies from the region granted ; -- commonly so called, the act being known as the Yazoo Frauds Act, because of alleged corruption of the legislature, every member but one being a shareholder in one or more of the companies. The act granting the land was repealed in 1796 by a new legislature, and the repealing provisi…

Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating. [Obs.] "An abusive treaty." Bacon.

familiarize, or inure; - - with to. I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. Adventurer.