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FRETT
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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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.
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n.
The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves.
n.
One who, or that which, frets.
v. t.
To smooth after being fretted.
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.
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.
n.
A fretting; a festering; soreness.
p. p. & a.
Interlaced one with another; -- said of charges and ordinaries.
a.
Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.
p. p. & a.
Agitated; vexed; worried.
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.
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.
a.
Interlaced; linked together; -- said of charges or bearings. See Fretted.
n.
That which has the power of fretting or irritating.
a.
Adorned with fretwork.
a.
Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten.
a.
Worn; fretted; as, a magged brace.
a.
See Pockmarked.
a.
Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
a.
Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox.
p. p. & a.
Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface.