2. Verb. (third-person singular of fret) ¹
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Definition of Frets
1. fret [v] - See also: fret
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frets
Literary usage of Frets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent Writers by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1879)
"frets therefore correspond in their use •with the holes in the tube of a wind
... The use of frets to give certainty to the fingers in stopping the notes ..."
2. The Poetical Writings of Fitz-Greene Halleck: With Extracts from Those of by Fitz-Greene Halleck, Drake, Joseph Rodman (1869)
"|HE man who frets at worldly strife, Grows sallow, sour, and thin ; Give us the
lad whose happy life Is one perpetual grin; He, Midas-like, ..."
3. A Manual of Historic Ornament, Treating Upon the Evolution, Tradition, and by Richard Glazier (1906)
"Chinese and Japanese frets are usually right-angled, and are used in great profusion,
... The simplest form of construction for frets, or key pattern, ..."
4. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"The man who frets at worldly strife, Grows sallow, sour, and thin; Give us the
lad whose happy life Is one perpetual grin; He, Midas-like, turns all to gold ..."
5. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"THE MAN WHO frets AT WORLDLY STRIFE "A merry heart goes all the way A sad one
tires ln a mile-a. ..."
6. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"Like Caliban, he frets his very heart-strings against the rivets of his chain.
Still, at intervals through the gloomy vigils of his prison, ..."
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