Definition of fret

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Fret (n.) The reticulated headdress or net, made of gold or silver wire, in which ladies in the Middle Ages confined their hair..

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Feaze :: Feaze (n.) A state of anxious or fretful excitement; worry; vexation.
Pomfret :: Pomfret (n.) A marine food fish of Bermuda (Brama Raji).
Patient :: Patient (a.) Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering..
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..
Ripple :: Ripple (n.) The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves..
Fret :: Fret (n.) Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret..
Neck :: Neck (n.) That part of a violin, guitar, or similar instrument, which extends from the head to the body, and on which is the finger board or fret board..
Fretum :: Fretum (n.) A strait, or arm of the sea..
Fret :: Fret (n.) A short piece of wire, or other material fixed across the finger board of a guitar or a similar instrument, to indicate where the finger is to be placed..
Fumishness :: Fumishness (n.) Choler; fretfulness; passion.
Gall :: Gall (v. t.) To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable..
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..
Pock-broken :: Pock-broken (a.) Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten..
Fretten :: Fretten (a.) Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox..
Frett :: Frett (n.) The worn side of the bank of a river. See 4th Fret, n., 4..
Fretter :: Fretter (n.) One who, or that which, frets..
Chamfret :: Chamfret (n.) A small gutter; a furrow; a groove.
Testy :: Testy (superl.) Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated.
Fretted :: Fretted (p. p. & a.) Interlaced one with another; -- said of charges and ordinaries.
Exulceration :: Exulceration (n.) A fretting; a festering; soreness.
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