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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.

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.

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 The act granting the land was repealed in 1796 by a new legislature, and the repealing provisi…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.

, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. After making the largest allowance for fraud. Macaulay.

One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer. "Artificer of fraud." Milton. The great Artificer of all that moves. Cowper.

A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors. Blackstone.

A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of the mariners, to the injury of the owner of the ship or cargo, and without his consent. It includes every breach of trust committed with dishonest purpose, as by running away with the ship…

To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. [Colloq.]

To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city. Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men. Matt. xvii. 22.

ything else; hence, in a bed sense, to deceive or circumvent. That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter. 1 Thess. iv. 6.