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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..

Moody :: Moody (superl.) Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy..

Cankered :: Cankered (a.) Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured..

Chamfret :: Chamfret (n.) A chamfer.

Teatish :: Teatish (a.) Peevish; tettish; fretful; -- said of a child. See Tettish.

Frett :: Frett (n.) A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda..

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

Freta :: Freta (pl. ) of Fretu.

Unfret :: Unfret (v. t.) To smooth after being fretted.

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

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..

Fretting :: Fretting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fre.

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

Petulant :: Petulant (a.) Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured freakishness; irritable.

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

Chamfret :: Chamfret (n.) A small gutter; a furrow; a groove.

Fray :: Fray (n.) A fret or chafe, as in cloth; a place injured by rubbing..

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

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..

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