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Testiness :: Testiness (n.) The quality or state of being testy; fretfulness; petulance.

Fret :: Fret (v. i.) To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions.

Fret :: Fret (n.) Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret..

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

Freta :: Freta (pl. ) of Fretu.

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..

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

Lute :: Lute (n.) A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or sides, arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed..

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

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

Fret :: Fret (v. i.) To eat in; to make way by corrosion.

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..

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

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..

Chafe :: Chafe (v. t.) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.

Exulceration :: Exulceration (n.) A fretting; a festering; soreness.

Niggle :: Niggle (v. t.) To fret and snarl about trifles.

Transfreight :: Transfreight (v. i.) To transfrete.

Worrisome :: Worrisome (a.) Inclined to worry or fret; also, causing worry or annoyance..

Corrosive :: Corrosive (a.) Having the quality of fretting or vexing.

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