Bible Dictionaries
Fraud

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) A trap or snare.

(2):

(n.) Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.

(3):

(n.) An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Fraud'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​f/fraud.html. 1828.