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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..

Impatience :: Impatience (n.) The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid..

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..

Corrosive :: Corrosive (n.) That which has the power of fretting or irritating.

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.

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

Fray :: Fray (n.) A fret or chafe, as in cloth; a place injured by rubbing..

Fretter :: Fretter (n.) One who, or that which, frets..

Freta :: Freta (pl. ) of Fretu.

Fret :: Fret (v. i.) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray; as, a wristband frets on the edges..

Chafe :: Chafe (v. t.) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.

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

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 (n.) Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret..

Fret :: Fret (n.) See 1st Frith.

Affret :: Affret (n.) A furious onset or attack.

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..

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

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

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..

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