Definition of fret

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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..

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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..
Transfretation :: Transfretation (n.) The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea.
Niggle :: Niggle (v. t.) To fret and snarl about trifles.
Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple; as, to fret the surface of water..
Fretted :: Fretted (p. p. & a.) Interlaced one with another; -- said of charges and ordinaries.
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..
Fretful :: Fretful (a.) Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper..
Vex :: Vex (v. i.) To be irritated; to fret.
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..
Trouble :: Trouble (v. t.) To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.
Refret :: Refret (n.) Refrain.
Fret :: Fret (v. i.) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray; as, a wristband frets on the edges..
Testiness :: Testiness (n.) The quality or state of being testy; fretfulness; petulance.
Freta :: Freta (pl. ) of Fretu.
Fretten :: Fretten (a.) Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox..
Chafe :: Chafe (v. t.) To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable..
Fret :: Fret (v. i.) To eat in; to make way by corrosion.
Irritate :: Irritate (n.) To make morbidly excitable, or oversensitive; to fret; as, the skin is irritated by friction; to irritate a wound by a coarse bandage..
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..
Pock-broken :: Pock-broken (a.) Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten..
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