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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 (v. t.) To furnish with frets, as an instrument of music..

Niggle :: Niggle (v. t.) To fret and snarl about trifles.

Crossly :: Crossly (adv.) Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.

Cankered :: Cankered (a.) Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured..

Spleenish :: Spleenful (a.) Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy..

Fret :: Fret (n.) A short piece of wire, or other material fixed across the finger board of a guitar or a similar instrument, to indicate where the finger is to be placed..

Fretwork :: Fretwork (n.) Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like..

Marline :: Marline (v.) A small line composed of two strands a little twisted, used for winding around ropes and cables, to prevent their being weakened by fretting..

Pet :: Pet (n.) A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness.

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..

Teeny :: Teeny (a.) Fretful; peevish; pettish; cross.

Meander :: Meander (n.) Fretwork. See Fret.

Chafe :: Chafe (v. t.) To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable..

Crossness :: Crossness (n.) The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.

Fretted :: Fretted (imp. & p. p.) of Fre.

Fretten :: Fretten (a.) Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox..

Interfretted :: Interfretted (a.) Interlaced; linked together; -- said of charges or bearings. See Fretted.

Frett :: Frett (n.) The worn side of the bank of a river. See 4th Fret, n., 4..

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