Defray /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Defrayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Defraying

1. To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc.

   For the discharge of his expenses, and defraying his cost, he allowed him . . . four times as much.

2. To avert or appease, as by paying off; to satisfy; as, to defray wrath. [Obs.]