Definition of fret

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Fret (n.) The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.

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Pheese :: Pheese (n.) Fretful excitement.
Cankeredly :: Cankeredly (adv.) Fretfully; spitefully.
Fretted :: Fretted (p. p. & a.) Rubbed or worn away; chafed.
Vex :: Vex (v. i.) To be irritated; to fret.
Fretful :: Fretful (a.) Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper..
Feaze :: Feaze (n.) A state of anxious or fretful excitement; worry; vexation.
Unfret :: Unfret (v. t.) To smooth after being fretted.
Testy :: Testy (superl.) Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated.
Feeze :: Feeze (n.) Fretful excitement. [Obs.] See Feaze.
Fray :: Fray (n.) A fret or chafe, as in cloth; a place injured by rubbing..
Teeny :: Teeny (a.) Fretful; peevish; pettish; cross.
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..
Magged :: Magged (a.) Worn; fretted; as, a magged brace..
Querulous :: Querulous (v.) Expressing complaint; fretful; whining; as, a querulous tone of voice..
Fret :: Fret (v. i.) To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle; as, rancor frets in the malignant breast..
Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To tease; to irritate; to vex.
Pock-fretten :: Pock-fretten (a.) See Pockmarked.
Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To rub; to wear away by friction; to chafe; to gall; hence, to eat away; to gnaw; as, to fret cloth; to fret a piece of gold or other metal; a worm frets the plants of a ship..
Fretting :: Fretting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fre.
Gall :: Gall (v. t.) To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable..
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