Word Meanings - FRETTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Rubbed or worn away; chafed. 2. Agitated; vexed; worried.

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• AGITATO
  Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.
• RUBBLEWORK
  Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape.
• VEXILLAR; VEXILLARY
  Of or pertaining to the vexillum, or upper petal of papilionaceous flowers. Vexilary æstivation , a mode of æstivation in which one large upper petal folds over, and covers, the other smaller petals, as in most papilionaceous plants. (more info)
• AGITATION
  1. 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 a storm is in agitation. 2. A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• CHAFFERY
  Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
• WORRIER
  One who worries.
• RUBBIDGE
  Rubbish. Bp. Hall.
• CHAFFER
  1. To buy or sell; to trade in. He chaffered chairs in which churchmen were set. Spenser. 2. To exchange; to bandy, as words. Spenser.
• VEXINGLY
  In a vexing manner; so as to vex, tease, or irritate. Tatler.
• CHAFER
  1. One who chafes. 2. A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan. A chafer of water to cool the ends of the irons. Baker.
• WORRIMENT
  Trouble; anxiety; worry.
• CHAFFINCH
  A bird of Europe , having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.
• VEXILLUM
  The upper petal of a papilionaceous flower; the standard. (more info) A flag or standard. A company of troops serving under one standard. A banner. The sign of the cross.
• CHAFERY
  An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.
• VEXILLATION
  A company of troops under one vexillum.
• CHAFEWAX; CHAFFWAX
  Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.
• RUBBLY
  Relating to, or containing, rubble.
• RUBBLE
  A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock. Lyell. 4. pl. (more info) 1. Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing
• VEXED
  1. Annoyed; harassed; troubled. 2. Much debated or contested; causing discussion; as, a vexed question.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• SCRUBBY
  Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur. "Dense, scrubby woods." Duke of Argull.
• COCKCHAFER
  A beetle of the genus Melolontha and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.
• CONVEXED
  Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form. Sir T. Browne.
• CONVEXEDNESS
  Convexity.
• INDIA RUBBER
  . See Caoutchouc.
• CONVEX
  Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave. Drops of water naturally form themselves into figures with a
• SCRUBBER
  A gas washer. See under Gas. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, scrubs; esp., a brush used in scrubbing.
• SHRUBBY
  1. Full of shrubs. 2. Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub. "Shrubby browse." J. Philips.
• GRUBBY
  Dirty; unclean. The grubby game of marbles. Lond. Sat. Rev.