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

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

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..

Fumishness :: Fumishness (n.) Choler; fretfulness; passion.

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

Gall :: Gall (v. t.) To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm..

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..

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

Fretum :: Fretum (n.) A strait, or arm of the sea..

Rub :: Rub (v. i.) To fret; to chafe; as, to rub upon a sore..

Pet :: Pet (n.) A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness.

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

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..

Frett :: Frett (n.) A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda..

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

Gnaw :: Gnaw (v. t.) To corrode; to fret away; to waste.

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

Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To furnish with frets, as an instrument of music..

Fretted :: Fretted (p. p. & a.) Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface.

Irritate :: Irritate (n.) To make morbidly excitable, or oversensitive; to fret; as, the skin is irritated by friction; to irritate a wound by a coarse bandage..

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