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Testiness :: Testiness (n.) The quality or state of being testy; fretfulness; petulance.

Fret :: Fret (v. t.) 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..

Pock-fretten :: Pock-fretten (a.) See Pockmarked.

Worrisome :: Worrisome (a.) Inclined to worry or fret; also, causing worry or annoyance..

Trouble :: Trouble (v. t.) To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.

Pomfret :: Pomfret (n.) A marine food fish of Bermuda (Brama Raji).

Frett :: Frett (n.) A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda..

Querulous :: Querulous (v.) Expressing complaint; fretful; whining; as, a querulous tone of voice..

Chafe :: Chafe (v. t.) To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable..

Exulceration :: Exulceration (n.) A fretting; a festering; soreness.

Reglet :: Reglet (n.) A flat, narrow molding, used chiefly to separate the parts or members of compartments or panels from one another, or doubled, turned, and interlaced so as to form knots, frets, or other ornaments. See Illust. (12) of Column..

Fretted :: Fretted (p. p. & a.) Interlaced one with another; -- said of charges and ordinaries.

Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To tease; to irritate; to vex.

Fret :: Fret (v. i.) To eat in; to make way by corrosion.

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..

Moody :: Moody (superl.) Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy..

Fret :: Fret (n.) See 1st Frith.

Niggle :: Niggle (v. t.) To fret and snarl about trifles.

Rub :: Rub (v. i.) To fret; to chafe; as, to rub upon a sore..

Fret :: Fret (n.) 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..

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