Definition of fret

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Fret (v. i.) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray; as, a wristband frets on the edges..

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Chamfret :: Chamfret (n.) A chamfer.
Corrosive :: Corrosive (a.) Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
Fret :: Fret (n.) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
Transfretation :: Transfretation (n.) The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea.
Pock-fretten :: Pock-fretten (a.) See Pockmarked.
Fret :: Fret (n.) An ornament consisting of smmall fillets or slats intersecting each other or bent at right angles, as in classical designs, or at obilique angles, as often in Oriental art..
Feeze :: Feeze (n.) Fretful excitement. [Obs.] See Feaze.
Fretting :: Fretting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fre.
Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To tease; to irritate; to vex.
Moody :: Moody (superl.) Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy..
Keckle :: Keckle (v. t.) To wind old rope around, as a cable, to preserve its surface from being fretted, or to wind iron chains around, to defend from the friction of a rocky bottom, or from the ice..
Transfreight :: Transfreight (v. i.) To transfrete.
Fret :: Fret (v. i.) To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions.
Spleeny :: Spleeny (a.) Irritable; peevish; fretful.
Fretted :: Fretted (p. p. & a.) Interlaced one with another; -- said of charges and ordinaries.
Harass :: Harass (v. t.) To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out..
Fret :: Fret (n.) The worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones containing them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins..
Peevish :: Peevish (a.) Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer..
Gall :: Gall (v. t.) To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm..
Cross :: Cross (a.) Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman..
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