Definition of fret

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Fret (n.) An ornament consisting of smmall fillets or slats intersecting each other or bent at right angles, as in classical designs, or at obilique angles, as often in Oriental art..

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Chafe :: Chafe (v. t.) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
Pique :: Pique (v. t.) To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to offend; to excite to anger.
Trouble :: Trouble (v. t.) To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.
Transfreight :: Transfreight (v. i.) To transfrete.
Testify :: Testify (adv.) In a testy manner; fretfully; peevishly; with petulance.
Freta :: Freta (pl. ) of Fretu.
Cankeredly :: Cankeredly (adv.) Fretfully; spitefully.
Fret :: Fret (v. i.) To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle; as, rancor frets in the malignant breast..
Fray :: Fray (v. t.) To rub; to wear off, or wear into shreds, by rubbing; to fret, as cloth; as, a deer is said to fray her head..
Feaze :: Feaze (n.) A state of anxious or fretful excitement; worry; vexation.
Fretted :: Fretted (imp. & p. p.) of Fre.
Fret :: Fret (v. i.) To eat in; to make way by corrosion.
Fretum :: Fretum (n.) A strait, or arm of the sea..
Rub :: Rub (v. i.) To fret; to chafe; as, to rub upon a sore..
Transfrete :: Transfrete (v. i.) To pass over a strait or narrow sea.
Pock-broken :: Pock-broken (a.) Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten..
Fret :: Fret (v. i.) To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions.
Theorbo :: Theorbo (n.) An instrument made like large lute, but having two necks, with two sets of pegs, the lower set holding the strings governed by frets, while to the upper set were attached the long bass strings used as open notes..
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..
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