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

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..

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

Worry :: Worry (v. i.) To feel or express undue care and anxiety; to manifest disquietude or pain; to be fretful; to chafe; as, the child worries; the horse worries..

Worry :: Worry (n.) A state of undue solicitude; a state of disturbance from care and anxiety; vexation; anxiety; fret; as, to be in a worry..

Spleenless :: Spleenish (a.) Spleeny; affected with spleen; fretful.

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.

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

Testiness :: Testiness (n.) The quality or state of being testy; fretfulness; petulance.

Neck :: Neck (n.) That part of a violin, guitar, or similar instrument, which extends from the head to the body, and on which is the finger board or fret board..

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

Niggle :: Niggle (v. t.) To fret and snarl about trifles.

Frett :: Frett (n.) The worn side of the bank of a river. See 4th Fret, n., 4..

Chamfret :: Chamfret (n.) A chamfer.

Exulceration :: Exulceration (n.) A fretting; a festering; soreness.

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..

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..

Impatient :: Impatient (a.) Not patient; not bearing with composure; intolerant; uneasy; fretful; restless, because of pain, delay, or opposition; eager for change, or for something expected; hasty; passionate; -- often followed by at, for, of, and under..

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

Irritability :: Irritability (n.) The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper..

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