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Word Meanings - FRETTEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox. Wright.

Related words: (words related to FRETTEN)

  • MARKETABLENESS
    Quality of being marketable.
  • RUBBLEWORK
    Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape.
  • MARKETER
    One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.
  • MARKETSTEAD
    A market place. Drayton.
  • RUBBIDGE
    Rubbish. Bp. Hall.
  • WRIGHT
    One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc. He was a well good wright, a carpenter.
  • MARK
    A license of reprisals. See Marque.
  • MARKSMAN
    One who makes his mark, instead of writing his name, in signing documents. Burrill. (more info) 1. One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well.
  • MARKABLE
    Remarkable. Sandys.
  • MARKIS
    A marquis. Chaucer.
  • RUBBLY
    Relating to, or containing, rubble.
  • MARKER
    One who or that which marks. Specifically: One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards. A counter used in card playing and other games. The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment. An
  • 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
  • SMALLPOX
    A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
  • MARKISESSE
    A marchioness. Chaucer.
  • RUBBLESTONE
    See 2
  • RUBBISH
    Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; débris. What rubbish and what offal! Shak. he saw the town's one half in rubbish lie. Dryden. Rubbish
  • MARKEE
    See MARQUEE
  • MARKED
    Designated or distinguished by, or as by, a mark; hence; noticeable; conspicuous; as, a marked card; a marked coin; a marked instance. -- Mark"ed*ly, adv. J. S. Mill. A marked man, a man who is noted by a community, or by a part of it,
  • MARKETABLE
    1. Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacayemarketable. 2. Current in market; as, marketable value. 3. Wanted by purchasers; salable; as, furs are not marketable in that country.
  • TRADE-MARK
    A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
  • SEAMARK
    Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. Shak.
  • BOOKMARK
    Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.
  • COMMARK
    The frontier of a country; confines. Shelton.
  • CARTWRIGHT
    An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
  • SCRUBBY
    Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur. "Dense, scrubby woods." Duke of Argull.
  • REMARKER
    One who remarks.
  • FOOTMARK
    A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge.
  • SWANMARK
    A mark of ownership cut on the bill or swan. Encyc. Brit.
  • NEWMARKET
    A long, closely fitting cloak.
  • POCK-FRETTEN
    See POCKMARKED
  • COUNTERMARK
    An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age. (more info) 1. A mark or token added to those already existing, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark
  • INDIA RUBBER
    . See Caoutchouc.

 

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