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Fretful :: Fretful (a.) Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper..

Fretted :: Fretted (p. p. & a.) Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface.

Fray :: Fray (v. t.) To rub; to wear off, or wear into shreds, by rubbing; to fret, as cloth; as, a deer is said to fray her head..

Pet :: Pet (n.) A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness.

Fret :: 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..

Grecque :: Grecque (n.) An ornament supposed to be of Greek origin, esp. a fret or meander..

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..

Pettish :: Pettish (a.) Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper.

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

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..

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

Meander :: Meander (n.) Fretwork. See Fret.

Viol :: Viol (n.) A stringed musical instrument formerly in use, of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having six strings, to be struck with a bow, and the neck furnished with frets for stopping the strings..

Refret :: Refret (n.) Refrain.

Fret :: Fret (n.) The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.

Fretted :: Fretted (p. p. & a.) Interlaced one with another; -- said of charges and ordinaries.

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

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..

Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To rub; to wear away by friction; to chafe; to gall; hence, to eat away; to gnaw; as, to fret cloth; to fret a piece of gold or other metal; a worm frets the plants of a ship..

Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To devour.

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