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FRET, L. rodo, rosi, rado, to scrape. To fret or gnaw gives the sense of unevenness, roughness, in substances the like appearance is given to fluids by agitation.

1. To rub to wear away a substance by friction as, to fret cloth to fret a piece of gold or other metal.

2. To corrode to gnaw to ear away as, a worm frets the planks of a ship.

3. To impair to wear away.

By starts, his fretted fortunes give him hope and fear.

4. To form into raised work.

5. To variegate to diversify.

Yon gray lines that fret the clouds are messengers of day.

6. To agitate violently.

7. To agitate to disturb to make rough to cause to ripple as, to fret the surface of water.

8. To tease to irritate to vex to make angry.

Fret not thyself because of evil doers. Psalms 38 .

9. To wear away to chafe to gall. Let not a saddle or harness fret the skin of your horse.

FRET,

1. To be worn away to be corroded. Any substance will in time fret away by friction.

2. To eat or wear in to make way of attrition or corrosion.

Many wheels arose, and fretted one into another with great excoriation.

3. To be agitated to be in violent commotion as the rancor that frets in the malignant breast.

4. To be vexed to be chafed or irritated to be angry to utter peevish expressions.

He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.

FRET, n.

1. The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause a rippling on the surface of water small undulations continually repeated.

2. Work raised in protuberances or a kind of knot consisting of two lists or small fillets interlaced, used as an ornament in architecture.

3. Agitation of mind commotion of temper irritation as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret.

Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret.

4. A short piece of wire fixed on the fingerboard of a guitar, &c., which being pressed against the strings varies the tone.

5. In heraldry, a bearing composed of bars crossed and interlaced.

FRET, To furnish with frets, as an instrument of music.

FRET, n. L. fretum. A frith, which see.