Fretwork: alternatives and connections

A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the act…

Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.

Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet.

A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.

Hollow relief; sculpture in relief within a sinking made for the purpose, so no part of it projects beyond the plain surface around.

Half relief; sculpture in relief of which the figures project from the background by one half their full roundness.

A work sculptured in relief, as a cameo, or in bas-relief (in this sense used loosely).

Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborat…

Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details.

Ornamental work in relief, as carving or embossing. See Fretwork.

Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface.

One who, or that which, frets.

To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport.

An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement.

A process for producing a design upon a surface in relief so that it can be printed from. Prepared chalk or oxide of zinc is pressed u…

an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief); "there was a simple fret at the top of t…

An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs.

A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines…