Fret: alternatives and connections

To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.

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To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.

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The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after…

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To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks.

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A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especi…

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To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.

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To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

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To cut.

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To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

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Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.

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To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or…

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To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or cause to shrink.

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A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

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To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

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To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic…

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Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.

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One of the spots on a dappled animal.

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To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice…

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The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.

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To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrativ…

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A flake; also, a lock, as of wool.

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To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provis…

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The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.

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Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.

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To render null and void.

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The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish.

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To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

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A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the…

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To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

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That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.

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A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a…

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An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to mar…

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To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.

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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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One who rends.

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To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

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The reddish yellow coating formed on iron when exposed to moist air, consisting of ferric oxide or hydroxide; hence, by extension, any metallic film…

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A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself.

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A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

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To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orang…

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To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

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To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.

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Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.

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A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.

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Bustle; confusion; tumult; flutter; bother.

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A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.

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To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or…

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A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.

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A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.

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The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that…

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The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that…

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To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

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To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

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To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh.

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Affray; broil; contest; combat.

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A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.

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To stop the mouth of, by thrusting sometimes in, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of spe…

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The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that…

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Serving to gratify; agreeable.

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Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.

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To trifle with; to deceive; to mock.

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To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.

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To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back…

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To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough ac…

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A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.

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