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  • English Word Freta Definition of Fretum
  • English Word Fretful Definition Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper.
  • English Word Frett Definition The worn side of the bank of a river. See 4th Fret, n., 4.
  • English Word Frett Definition A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda.
  • English Word Fretted Definition of Fret
  • English Word Fretted Definition Rubbed or worn away; chafed.
  • English Word Fretted Definition Agitated; vexed; worried.
  • English Word Fretted Definition Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface.
  • English Word Fretted Definition Interlaced one with another; -- said of charges and ordinaries.
  • English Word Fretten Definition Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox.
  • English Word Fretter Definition One who, or that which, frets.
  • English Word Fretting Definition of Fret
  • English Word Fretty Definition Adorned with fretwork.
  • English Word Fretum Definition A strait, or arm of the sea.
  • English Word Fretwork Definition Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like.
  • English Word Freya Definition The daughter of Njord, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct.
  • English Word Friabiiity Definition The quality of being friable; friableness.
  • English Word Friable Definition Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder.
  • English Word Friar Definition A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.
  • English Word Friar Definition A white or pale patch on a printed page.
  • English Word Friar Definition An American fish; the silversides.
  • English Word Friarly Definition Like a friar; inexperienced.
  • English Word Friary Definition Like a friar; pertaining to friars or to a convent.
  • English Word Friary Definition A monastery; a convent of friars.
  • English Word Friary Definition The institution or praactices of friars.
  • English Word Friation Definition The act of breaking up or pulverizing.
  • English Word Fribble Definition A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop.
  • English Word Fribble Definition To act in a trifling or foolish manner; to act frivolously.
  • English Word Fribble Definition To totter.
  • English Word Fribbler Definition A trifler; a fribble.