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

Petulant :: Petulant (a.) Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured freakishness; irritable.

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

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

Nettle :: Nettle (v. t.) To fret or sting; to irritate or vex; to cause to experience sensations of displeasure or uneasiness not amounting to violent anger.

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

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

Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To impair; to wear away; to diminish.

Exulcerate :: Exulcerate (v. t. & i.) To corrode; to fret; to chafe; to inflame.

Teatish :: Teatish (a.) Peevish; tettish; fretful; -- said of a child. See Tettish.

Spleeny :: Spleeny (a.) Irritable; peevish; fretful.

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..

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

Transfrete :: Transfrete (v. i.) To pass over a strait or narrow sea.

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

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

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..

Moody :: Moody (superl.) Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy..

Ripple :: Ripple (v. i.) To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom; to be covered with small waves or undulations, as a field of grain..

Unfret :: Unfret (v. t.) To smooth after being fretted.

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