(law) Receiving insurance policy-based compensation by intentionally causing an event due to which the claim for the compensation for insured property becomes seemingly lawful, and by concealing the intention.

A scam in which the solicitor offers large sums of money in return for a smaller up front investment.

(US, law) A felony of a particular class subject to a separate and additional federal penalty for any crime of fraud involving the use of technological communications methods such as wire, radio, or television.

(US, law) A class of felonies, providing for a separate and additional federal penalty for any criminal offense whose perpetration involved the use of the postal system of the United States of America.

(historical) France's former possessions and colonies in North America, including Canada (now Quebec and Ontario and Ohio plains), Acadia (now New Brunswick and Nova Scotia), and Louisiana (now the Mississippi plains), before 1763.

The operator of a knitting machine, especially of a stocking frame

knitting machine used to manufacture hosiery

(medicine) Any fracture of a bone (most often a load-bearing bone such as a vertebra) caused by compression

Alternative form of state of mind

An old design of saw that used a relatively narrow blade, kept stiff by tension through the frame.