Definition of fret

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Fret (n.) See 1st Frith.

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Cankeredly :: Cankeredly (adv.) Fretfully; spitefully.
Querulous :: Querulous (v.) Expressing complaint; fretful; whining; as, a querulous tone of voice..
Unfret :: Unfret (v. t.) To smooth after being fretted.
Exulceration :: Exulceration (n.) A fretting; a festering; soreness.
Magged :: Magged (a.) Worn; fretted; as, a magged brace..
Reglet :: Reglet (n.) A flat, narrow molding, used chiefly to separate the parts or members of compartments or panels from one another, or doubled, turned, and interlaced so as to form knots, frets, or other ornaments. See Illust. (12) of Column..
Keckle :: Keckle (v. t.) To wind old rope around, as a cable, to preserve its surface from being fretted, or to wind iron chains around, to defend from the friction of a rocky bottom, or from the ice..
Fretted :: Fretted (p. p. & a.) Agitated; vexed; worried.
Spleenless :: Spleenish (a.) Spleeny; affected with spleen; fretful.
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..
Fretted :: Fretted (p. p. & a.) Rubbed or worn away; chafed.
Fret :: Fret (n.) Herpes; tetter.
Meander :: Meander (n.) Fretwork. See Fret.
Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To tease; to irritate; to vex.
Spleeny :: Spleeny (a.) Irritable; peevish; fretful.
Fret :: Fret (n.) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
Ill-tempered :: Ill-tempered (a.) Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome.
Fret :: Fret (v. i.) To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle; as, rancor frets in the malignant breast..
Fret :: Fret (n.) The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
Teatish :: Teatish (a.) Peevish; tettish; fretful; -- said of a child. See Tettish.
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