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FRETT
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English
English : from Middle English frette, Old French frete ‘interlaced work (in metal and precious stones)’ such as was used for hair ornaments and the like, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such pieces.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Fretter, an occupational name for a maker of ornaments (especially for the hair) consisting of jewels set in a lattice network, from an agent derivative of Middle English frette, Old French frete ‘interlaced work’.
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p. p. & a.
Agitated; vexed; worried.
v. t.
To smooth after being fretted.
n.
One who, or that which, frets.
a.
Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.
a.
Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
a.
Interlaced; linked together; -- said of charges or bearings. See Fretted.
n.
The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves.
n.
That which has the power of fretting or irritating.
a.
Adorned with fretwork.
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See Pockmarked.
a.
Worn; fretted; as, a magged brace.
a.
Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox.
p. p. & a.
Interlaced one with another; -- said of charges and ordinaries.
n.
A fretting; a festering; soreness.
v. i.
To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom; to be covered with small waves or undulations, as a field of grain.
a.
Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten.
v.
A small line composed of two strands a little twisted, used for winding around ropes and cables, to prevent their being weakened by fretting.
p. p. & a.
Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface.
v. t.
To wind old rope around, as a cable, to preserve its surface from being fretted, or to wind iron chains around, to defend from the friction of a rocky bottom, or from the ice.
v. t.
To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out.