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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..

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

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

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

Moody :: Moody (superl.) Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy..

Crossness :: Crossness (n.) The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.

Interfretted :: Interfretted (a.) Interlaced; linked together; -- said of charges or bearings. See Fretted.

Whipsaw :: Whipsaw (n.) A saw for dividing timber lengthwise, usually set in a frame, and worked by two persons; also, a fret saw..

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

Testify :: Testify (adv.) In a testy manner; fretfully; peevishly; with petulance.

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

Peevish :: Peevish (a.) Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer..

Ripple :: Ripple (v. t.) To fret or dimple, as the surface of running water; to cover with small waves or undulations; as, the breeze rippled the lake..

Fret :: Fret (n.) See 1st Frith.

Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple; as, to fret the surface of water..

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..

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

Peevish :: Peevish (a.) Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.

Magged :: Magged (a.) Worn; fretted; as, a magged brace..

Unfret :: Unfret (v. t.) To smooth after being fretted.

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