Definition of fret

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Fret (v. i.) To eat in; to make way by corrosion.

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Spleenish :: Spleenful (a.) Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy..
Pique :: Pique (v. t.) To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to offend; to excite to anger.
Fret :: Fret (n.) See 1st Frith.
Grecque :: Grecque (n.) An ornament supposed to be of Greek origin, esp. a fret or meander..
Chafe :: Chafe (v. t.) To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable..
Whipsaw :: Whipsaw (n.) A saw for dividing timber lengthwise, usually set in a frame, and worked by two persons; also, a fret saw..
Pettish :: Pettish (a.) Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper.
Fretted :: Fretted (p. p. & a.) Interlaced one with another; -- said of charges and ordinaries.
Cross :: Cross (a.) Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman..
Ill-tempered :: Ill-tempered (a.) Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome.
Ripple :: Ripple (n.) The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves..
Trouble :: Trouble (v. t.) To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.
Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple; as, to fret the surface of water..
Fret :: Fret (n.) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
Pock-fretten :: Pock-fretten (a.) See Pockmarked.
Worry :: Worry (v. t.) To harass or beset with importunity, or with care an anxiety; to vex; to annoy; to torment; to tease; to fret; to trouble; to plague..
Fret :: Fret (n.) The reticulated headdress or net, made of gold or silver wire, in which ladies in the Middle Ages confined their hair..
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..
Crossly :: Crossly (adv.) Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.
Spleenless :: Spleenish (a.) Spleeny; affected with spleen; fretful.
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