Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RE-FRACT'
RE-FRACT', v.t. [L. refractus, refringo; re and frango, to break.]
To break the natural course of the rays of light; to cause to deviate from a direct course. A dense medium refracts the rays of light, as they pass into it from a rare medium.
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