Definition of fret

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Fret (n.) The worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones containing them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins..

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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..
Fumishness :: Fumishness (n.) Choler; fretfulness; passion.
Patient :: Patient (a.) Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering..
Moody :: Moody (superl.) Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy..
Chafe :: Chafe (v. i.) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
Fret :: Fret (n.) Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret..
Petulant :: Petulant (a.) Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured freakishness; irritable.
Unfret :: Unfret (v. t.) To smooth after being fretted.
Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To devour.
Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To furnish with frets, as an instrument of music..
Testy :: Testy (superl.) Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated.
Feeze :: Feeze (n.) Fretful excitement. [Obs.] See Feaze.
Whipsaw :: Whipsaw (n.) A saw for dividing timber lengthwise, usually set in a frame, and worked by two persons; also, a fret saw..
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..
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..
Magged :: Magged (a.) Worn; fretted; as, a magged brace..
Fret :: Fret (v. i.) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray; as, a wristband frets on the edges..
Freta :: Freta (pl. ) of Fretu.
Corrosive :: Corrosive (a.) Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
Fretty :: Fretty (a.) Adorned with fretwork.
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