Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FRA-TERN'I-TY, n. [L. fraternitas.]

1. The state or quality of a brother; brotherhood.
2. A body of men associated for their common interest or pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a society; as, the fraternity of monks.
3. Men of the same class, profession, occupation or character. With what terms of respect knaves and sots will speak of their own fraternity. South.

FRA-TER-NI-ZA'TION, n.

The act of associating and holding fellowship as brethren. Burke.

FRA-TERN'IZE, v.i.

To associate or hold fellowship as brothers, or as men of like occupation or character.

FRAT'RI-CI-DAL, a.

Pertaining to fratricide.

FRAT'RI-CIDE, n. [L. fratricidium; frater, brother, and cædo, to kill.]

1. The crime of murdering a brother.
2. One who murders or kills a brother. L. Addison.

FRAUD, n. [L. fraus; Fr. Sp. It. and Port. fraude. This agrees in elements with Sax. bræd, bred, fraud, which is contracted from brægden, fraud, guile, disguise; and bræg coincides with brigue. But I know not that these words are connected with the Latin fraus.]

Deceit; deception; trick; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; a stratagem intended to obtain some undue advantage; an attempt to gain or the obtaining of an advantage over another by imposition or immoral means, particularly deception in contracts, or bargain and sale, either by stating falsehoods, or suppressing truth. If success a lover's toil attends, / Who asks if force or fraud obtained his ends? Pope.

FRAUD'FUL, a.

1. Deceitful in making bargains; trickish; treacherous; applied to persons. Shak.
2. Containing fraud or deceit; applied to things. Dryden.

FRAUD'FUL-LY, adv.

Deceitfully; with intention to deceive and gain an undue advantage; trickishly; treacherously; by stratagem.

FRAUD'LESS, a.

Free from fraud.

FRAUD'LESS-LY, adv.

In a fraudless manner.

FRAUD'LESS-NESS, n.

State of being fraudless.

FRAUD'U-LENCE, or FRAUD'U-LEN-CY, n.

Deceitfulness; trickishness in making bargains, or in social concerns. Hooker.

FRAUD'U-LENT, a.

1. Deceitful in making contracts; trickish; applied to persons.
2. Containing fraud; founded on fraud; proceeding from fraud; as, a fraudulent bargain.
3. Deceitful; treacherous; obtained or performed by artifice. Milton.

FRAUD'U-LENT-LY, adv.

By fraud; by deceit; by artifice or imposition.

FRAUGHT, a. [fraut; D. vragt; G. fracht; Dan. fragt; Sw. fracht. A different orthography of freight, – which see.]

1. Laden; loaded; charged; as, a vessel richly fraught with goods from India. This sense is used in poetry; but in common business, freighted only is used.
2. Filled; stored; full; as, a scheme fraught with mischief; the Scriptures are fraught with excellent precepts. Hooker.

FRAUGHT, n.

A freight; a cargo. [Not now used.] Dryden.

FRAUGHT, v.t.

To load; to fill; to crowd. [Obs.] Shak.

FRAUGHT'AGE, a.

Loading; cargo. [Not used.] Shak.

FRAY, n. [Fr. fracas, It. fracasso, a great crash, havoc, ruin; Fr. fracasser, It. fracassare, to break; coinciding with L. fractura, from frango. Under Affray, this is referred to Fr. effrayer, to fright, but incorrectly, unless fright is from the same root. In the sense of rubbing, fretting, this is from the L. frico, Sp. fregar. But break, fright and frico, all have the same radicals.]

1. A broil, quarrel or violent riot, that puts men in fear. This is the vulgar word for affray, and the sense seems to refer the word to Fr. effrayer.
2. A combat; a battle; also, a single combat or duel. Pope.
3. A contest; contention. Milton.
4. A rub; a fret or chafe in cloth; a place injured by rubbing. Tatler.

FRAY, v.t.¹

To fright; to terrify. [Obs.] Spenser. Bacon.

FRAY, v.t.² [Fr. frayer, L. frico, to rub.]

1. To rub; to fret, as cloth by wearing.
2. To rub; as, a deer frays his head.

FRAY'ED, pp.

Frightened; rubbed; worn.

FRAY'ING, n.

Peel of a deer's horn. B. Jonson.

FRAY'ING, ppr.

Frightening; terrifying; rubbing.

FREAK, n. [Ice. freka. Qu. G. frech, bold, saucy, petulant; Dan. frek, id.; Scot. frack, active. The English word does not accord perfectly with the Ger. Dan. and Scot. But it is probably from the root of break, denoting a sudden start.]

1. Literally, a sudden starting or change of place. Hence,
2. A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim or fancy; a capricious prank. She is restless and peevish, and sometimes in a freak will instantly change her habitation. Spectator.