Definition of fret

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Fret (v. i.) To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle; as, rancor frets in the malignant breast..

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Spleenless :: Spleenish (a.) Spleeny; affected with spleen; fretful.
Cross :: Cross (a.) Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman..
Testy :: Testy (superl.) Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated.
Cankered :: Cankered (a.) Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured..
Fret :: Fret (n.) The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To devour.
Chafe :: Chafe (v. t.) To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable..
Freta :: Freta (pl. ) of Fretu.
Worrisome :: Worrisome (a.) Inclined to worry or fret; also, causing worry or annoyance..
Transfretation :: Transfretation (n.) The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea.
Pomfret :: Pomfret (n.) One of two or more species of marine food fishes of the genus Stromateus (S. niger, S. argenteus) native of Southern Europe and Asia..
Teeny :: Teeny (a.) Fretful; peevish; pettish; cross.
Nag :: Nag (v. t. & i.) To tease in a petty way; to scold habitually; to annoy; to fret pertinaciously.
Spleenish :: Spleenful (a.) Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy..
Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To furnish with frets, as an instrument of music..
Transfrete :: Transfrete (v. i.) To pass over a strait or narrow sea.
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..
Fret :: Fret (n.) A short piece of wire, or other material fixed across the finger board of a guitar or a similar instrument, to indicate where the finger is to be placed..
Reglet :: Reglet (n.) A flat, narrow molding, used chiefly to separate the parts or members of compartments or panels from one another, or doubled, turned, and interlaced so as to form knots, frets, or other ornaments. See Illust. (12) of Column..
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..
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