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Definition of fret

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Fret (n.) An ornament consisting of smmall fillets or slats intersecting each other or bent at right angles, as in classical designs, or at obilique angles, as often in Oriental art..

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Fretted :: Fretted (p. p. & a.) Agitated; vexed; worried.

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..

Feeze :: Feeze (n.) Fretful excitement. [Obs.] See Feaze.

Interfretted :: Interfretted (a.) Interlaced; linked together; -- said of charges or bearings. See Fretted.

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.

Ripple :: Ripple (n.) The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves..

Rub :: Rub (v. i.) To fret; to chafe; as, to rub upon a sore..

Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To impair; to wear away; to diminish.

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

Keckle :: Keckle (v. t.) To wind old rope around, as a cable, to preserve its surface from being fretted, or to wind iron chains around, to defend from the friction of a rocky bottom, or from the ice..

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

Spleeny :: Spleeny (a.) Irritable; peevish; fretful.

Marline :: Marline (v.) A small line composed of two strands a little twisted, used for winding around ropes and cables, to prevent their being weakened by fretting..

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

Fretten :: Fretten (a.) Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox..

Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To tease; to irritate; to vex.

Spleenish :: Spleenful (a.) Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy..

Fretted :: Fretted (imp. & p. p.) of Fre.

Fret :: Fret (n.) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.

Pique :: Pique (v. t.) To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to offend; to excite to anger.