fret

• cause annoyance in
• To impair
• become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
• cause friction
• To rub
• be too tight
• remove soil or rock
• wear away or erode
• gnaw into
• To be agitated
• agitation resulting from active worry
• a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
• an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
• a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument
• worry unnecessarily or excessively
• be agitated or irritated
• provide (a musical instrument) with frets
• carve a pattern into
• decorate with an interlaced design
• To devour
• To make rough, agitate, or disturb
• To tease
• To be worn away
• To eat in
• To be vexed
• The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause
• Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience
• Herpes
• 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 ornament with raised work
• Ornamental work in relief, as carving or embossing
• 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
• The reticulated headdress or net, made of gold or silver wire, in which ladies in the Middle Ages confined their hair
• 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 furnish with frets, as an instrument of music

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