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

Grate :: Grate (v. t.) To fret; to irritate; to offend.

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

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

Nettle :: Nettle (v. t.) To fret or sting; to irritate or vex; to cause to experience sensations of displeasure or uneasiness not amounting to violent anger.

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

Ripple :: Ripple (n.) The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves..

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

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..

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

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

Vex :: Vex (v. i.) To be irritated; to fret.

Harass :: Harass (v. t.) To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out..

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

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..

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..

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

Spleenish :: Spleenful (a.) Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy..

Patient :: Patient (a.) Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering..

Nag :: Nag (v. t. & i.) To tease in a petty way; to scold habitually; to annoy; to fret pertinaciously.

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