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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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Chamfret :: Chamfret (n.) A small gutter; a furrow; a groove.

Pheese :: Pheese (n.) Fretful excitement.

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.

Querulous :: Querulous (v.) Expressing complaint; fretful; whining; as, a querulous tone of voice..

Pique :: Pique (v. t.) To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to offend; to excite to anger.

Fray :: Fray (n.) A fret or chafe, as in cloth; a place injured by rubbing..

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..

Corrade :: Corrade (v. t.) To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume.

Pock-fretten :: Pock-fretten (a.) See Pockmarked.

Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify.

Pock-broken :: Pock-broken (a.) Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten..

Fretted :: Fretted (p. p. & a.) Rubbed or worn away; chafed.

Fret :: Fret (v. i.) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray; as, a wristband frets on the edges..

Fretting :: Fretting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fre.

Fret :: Fret (n.) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.

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

Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To tease; to irritate; to vex.

Cross :: Cross (a.) Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman..

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

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..