"Fret" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
Fr. In French marine law. Freight, ord. Mar. liv. 3, tit. 3
Herpes; tetter.
To devour.
To furnish with frets, as an instrument of music.
The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or
other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
Ornamental work in relief, as carving or embossing. See
Fretwork.
To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple;
as, to fret the surface of water.
Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience;
disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual
fret.
A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
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.
To ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify.
To tease; to irritate; to vex.
The worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones
containing them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and
thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins.
To eat in; to make way by corrosion.
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.
To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle; as,
rancor frets in the malignant breast.
To impair; to wear away; to diminish.
To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to
utter peevish expressions.
To be worn away; to chafe; to fray; as, a wristband frets
on the edges.
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.
See 1st Frith.
The reticulated headdress or net, made of gold or silver
wire, in which ladies in the Middle Ages confined their hair.
Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.
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Read the complete definitionburagós - (B) Faded, chafed, fretted; destitute (of hair). (cf. búdhaw; ugís).
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Read the complete definitionHaving the quality of fretting or vexing.
Read the complete definitionThat which has the power of fretting or irritating.
Read the complete definitionCharacterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman.
Read the complete definitionAthwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.
Read the complete definitionThe quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.
Read the complete definitiondisgústo - (Sp. disgusto) Disgust, repugnance, dislike, aversion, displeasure; to disgust, offend, dislike, displease, annoy, vex, bother, fret, irritate, tire, …
Read the complete definitionTo corrode; to fret; to chafe; to inflame.
Read the complete definitionA fretting; a festering; soreness.
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