Definition of fret

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Fret (n.) Ornamental work in relief, as carving or embossing. See Fretwork..

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Corrosive :: Corrosive (a.) Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
Corrosive :: Corrosive (n.) That which has the power of fretting or irritating.
Patient :: Patient (a.) Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering..
Fretted :: Fretted (p. p. & a.) Rubbed or worn away; chafed.
Chamfret :: Chamfret (n.) A small gutter; a furrow; a groove.
Gall :: Gall (v. t.) To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm..
Cross :: Cross (a.) Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman..
Freta :: Freta (pl. ) of Fretu.
Splenetic :: Splenetic (a.) Affected with spleen; malicious; spiteful; peevish; fretful.
Peevish :: Peevish (a.) Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.
Moody :: Moody (superl.) Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy..
Fret :: Fret (n.) Herpes; tetter.
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..
Fret :: Fret (n.) See 1st Frith.
Frett :: Frett (n.) A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda..
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..
Fretten :: Fretten (a.) Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox..
Whipsaw :: Whipsaw (n.) A saw for dividing timber lengthwise, usually set in a frame, and worked by two persons; also, a fret saw..
Vex :: Vex (v. i.) To be irritated; to fret.
Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple; as, to fret the surface of water..
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