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Marline :: Marline (v.) A small line composed of two strands a little twisted, used for winding around ropes and cables, to prevent their being weakened by fretting..

Fret :: Fret (n.) Ornamental work in relief, as carving or embossing. See Fretwork..

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

Feaze :: Feaze (n.) A state of anxious or fretful excitement; worry; vexation.

Fretted :: Fretted (p. p. & a.) Interlaced one with another; -- said of charges and ordinaries.

Feeze :: Feeze (n.) Fretful excitement. [Obs.] See Feaze.

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

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

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

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..

Trouble :: Trouble (v. t.) To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.

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

Fret :: Fret (n.) The reticulated headdress or net, made of gold or silver wire, in which ladies in the Middle Ages confined their hair..

Transfretation :: Transfretation (n.) The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea.

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..

Pock-fretten :: Pock-fretten (a.) See Pockmarked.

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

Chafe :: Chafe (v. t.) To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable..

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..

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

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