fret vs humour

fret

noun
  • Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation. 

  • Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water. 

  • An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief. 

  • A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea. 

  • The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore. 

  • A channel or passage created by the sea. 

  • One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played. 

  • Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”). 

  • A saltire interlaced with a mascle. 

  • A channel, a strait; a fretum. 

verb
  • To be anxious, to worry. 

  • To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion. 

  • To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work. 

  • In the form fret out: to squander, to waste. 

  • To press down the string behind a fret. 

  • To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork. 

  • To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry. 

  • To fit frets on to (a musical instrument). 

  • To be worn away; to chafe; to fray. 

  • To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place. 

  • To chafe or irritate; to worry. 

  • To gnaw; to consume, to eat away. 

  • To form a pattern on; to variegate. 

  • To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring. 

  • To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple. 

humour

noun
  • A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim. 

  • The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. 

  • Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body. 

  • Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour. 

verb
  • To pacify by indulging. 

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