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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Fret :: Fret (v. i.) To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle; as, rancor frets in the malignant breast..
Pheese :: Pheese (n.) Fretful excitement.
Testify :: Testify (adv.) In a testy manner; fretfully; peevishly; with petulance.
Frett :: Frett (n.) A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda..
Transfrete :: Transfrete (v. i.) To pass over a strait or narrow sea.
Spleenless :: Spleenish (a.) Spleeny; affected with spleen; fretful.
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..
Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To tease; to irritate; to vex.
Refret :: Refret (n.) Refrain.
Fret :: Fret (n.) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
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..
Crossness :: Crossness (n.) The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.
Grate :: Grate (v. t.) To fret; to irritate; to offend.
Grecque :: Grecque (n.) An ornament supposed to be of Greek origin, esp. a fret or meander..
Fret :: Fret (n.) See 1st Frith.
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..
Cankered :: Cankered (a.) Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured..
Meander :: Meander (n.) Fretwork. See Fret.
Pique :: Pique (v. t.) To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to offend; to excite to anger.
Frett :: Frett (n.) The worn side of the bank of a river. See 4th Fret, n., 4..
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