What is to be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle; as, rancor frets in the malignant breast called?
fret — To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle; as, rancor frets in the malignant breast. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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