Fraudful
(Fraud"ful) a. Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; — applied to
persons or things. I. Taylor.
— Fraud"ful*ly, adv.
Fraudless
(Fraud"less), a. Free from fraud. — Fraud"less*ly, adv. — Fraud"less*ness, n.
Fraudulence
(Fraud"u*lence Fraud"u*len*cy) , n. [L. fraudulentia.] The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate
deceit; trickishness. Hooker.
Fraudulent
(Fraud"u*lent) a. [L. fraudulentus, fr. fraus, fraudis, fraud: cf. F. fraudulent.]
1. Using fraud; tricky; deceitful; dishonest.
2. Characterized by, founded on, or proceeding from, fraud; as, a fraudulent bargain.
He, with serpent tongue, . . .
His fraudulent temptation thus began.
Milton. 3. Obtained or performed by artifice; as, fraudulent conquest. Milton.
Syn. — Deceitful; fraudful; guileful; crafty; wily; cunning; subtle; deceiving; cheating; deceptive; insidious; treacherous; dishonest; designing; unfair.
Fraudulently
(Fraud"u*lent*ly) adv. In a fraudulent manner.
Fraught
(Fraught) n. [OE. fraight, fraght; akin to Dan. fragt, Sw. frakt, D. vracht, G. fracht, cf. OHG.
freht merit, reward; perh. from a pref. corresponding to E. for + The root of E. own. Cf. Freight.] A
freight; a cargo. [Obs.] Shak.
Fraught
(Fraught), a. Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged.
A vessel of our country richly fraught.
Shak.
A discourse fraught with all the commending excellences of speech.
South.
Enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits.
I. Taylor. Fraught
(Fraught), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fraughted or Fraught; p. pr. & vb. n. Fraughting.] [Akin to
Dan. fragte, Sw. frakta, D. bevrachten, G. frachten, cf. OHG. frehton to deserve. See Fraught, n.]
To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd. [Obs.]
Upon the tumbling billows fraughted ride
The armed ships.
Fairfax. Fraughtage
(Fraught"age) n. Freight; loading; cargo. [Obs.] Shak.
Fraughting
(Fraught"ing), a. Constituting the freight or cargo. [Obs.] "The fraughting souls within her."
Shak.
Fraunhofer lines
(Fraun"ho*fer lines`) (Physics.) The lines of the spectrum; especially and properly,
the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so called because first accurately observed and interpreted by
Fraunhofer, a German physicist.
Fraxin
(Frax"in) n. [From Fraxinus.] (Chem.) A colorless 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.
Fraxinus
(||Frax"i*nus) n. [L., the ash tree.] (Bot.) A genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the
north temperate zone, and including the true ash trees.
