fretful, fret full

[Eng. fret (1), s.; and -ful( 1 ).] 1. Angry, agitated. "Two goodly streames in one small channel meet, Whose fret full waves, beating against the hill, Did all the bottome with soft mutt'rings fill." Browne: Britannia's Pastorals , bk. ii., s. iv. 2. Peevish; irritable, in a state of vexation or illhumor; captious. "To gratify a fretful pa ion." Cowper: Mutual Forbearance. For the difference between fretful and captious , see CAPTIOUS. frět-fül-lý, adv . [Eng. fretful ; -ly.] In a fretful, peevish, or irritable manner; peevishly, petulantly, cro ly. frět-fül-ne , s. [Eng. fretful; -ne .) The quality or state of being fretful; peevishne ; cro ne ; irritability. "Fretfulne of temper, too, will generally characterize (2) Herpes or tetter. 2. Min.: 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. *frět (2), s . [FRET (2), v.] 1. Carved or raised ornamental work; fretwork. "So as when we meet with the greatest industry, and expensive carving, full of fret and lamentable imagery, sparing neither pains nor cost, a judicious spectator is distracted and quite confounded." - Evelyn: Architects and Architecture. 2. Ornamental work of any kind. "About the sides shall run a fret Of Primroses." Drayton: Muses' Elysium, Nym. 2. 3. Perforated ornamental work. [FRETWORK.] fret-saw, s. 1. A saw with a relatively long, narrow blade, used in cutting the frets, scrolls, ., on verge boards, ornamented screens, . A keyhole saw; a compa -saw. 2. A machine mounted on a stand with a treadle to give the reciprocating motion to the gig-saw. frět (3), s. [O. Fr. frete = a ferrule; freter = to cro , to interlace.] Fret. 1. Arch .: An ornament formed by small bands or fillets, intersecting each other at right angles, used in cla ical architecture. It is susceptible of many modifications, and is still often em. ployed. 2. Her .: A bearing composed of bars cro ed and interlaced. *frět (4), s . [Lat.fretum=a strait, a channel.) A channel. "We first advertise, it [Euripus] generally sign if i eth any strait, fret, or channel of the sea, running between two shores."Browne: Vulgar Errors , bk. vii., ch. xiii. Fret. they live, and the embarra ments with which they are surrounded, keep their spirits in perpetual ferment." Blair : Sermons , vol. ii., ser. 1. frět'-Ise, v. t. [Eng.fret (2), s.; -ise.] To ornament with fretwork. "Again, if it be in a great hall, then (beholding) of the fair embowed or vawted roofs, or of the fretised seelings curiously wrought, and sumptuously set forth."- North: Plutarch , p. 36. *frět-ment, s. [ Fret for freight , and suff. -ment.] Freight. "What you have advertised me of touching their fret. ment, shall not be forgotten." -Earl of Arran: Sadler's Papers , i. 697. IMG:content-0144.png:[blocks in formation] frětte, s. [O. Fr. fra it; Low Lat. fredum.] An agreement, a bargain, a ransom. frět-těd, frět'-ten, pa. par. & a. [FRET (2), v.] A. As pa . par .: (See the verb.) B. As adj . ( of the form fretted): 1. Ord. Lang.: Ornamented with frets or fretwork; having raised or sunk ornamentation in rectangular forms. 2. Her . ( of both forms): Applied to charges or ordinaries interlaced with each other.