Definition of fret

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Fret (v. i.) To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions.

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Testiness :: Testiness (n.) The quality or state of being testy; fretfulness; petulance.
Spleenless :: Spleenish (a.) Spleeny; affected with spleen; fretful.
Frett :: Frett (n.) The worn side of the bank of a river. See 4th Fret, n., 4..
Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To furnish with frets, as an instrument of music..
Exulceration :: Exulceration (n.) A fretting; a festering; soreness.
Ill-tempered :: Ill-tempered (a.) Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome.
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..
Gnaw :: Gnaw (v. t.) To corrode; to fret away; to waste.
Chamfret :: Chamfret (n.) A chamfer.
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..
Fret :: Fret (v. i.) To eat in; to make way by corrosion.
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..
Exulcerate :: Exulcerate (v. t. & i.) To corrode; to fret; to chafe; to inflame.
Spleenish :: Spleenful (a.) Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy..
Magged :: Magged (a.) Worn; fretted; as, a magged brace..
Cankeredly :: Cankeredly (adv.) Fretfully; spitefully.
Petulant :: Petulant (a.) Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured freakishness; irritable.
Meander :: Meander (n.) Fretwork. See Fret.
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..
Niggle :: Niggle (v. t.) To fret and snarl about trifles.
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