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Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper. -- Fret"ful-ly, adv. -- Fret"ful-ness, n.

Agitated; vexed; worried.

To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm. They that are most galled with my folly, They most must laugh. Shak.

Fitted to gall or chafe; vexing; harassing; irritating. -- Gall"ing*ly, adv.

gearing, gearing in which the teeth or cogs are ranged round either the concave or the convex surface (properly the latter) of a cylindrical wheel; -- for transmitting motion between parallel shafts, etc.

Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon. The bones will rise, and make a gibbous member. Wiseman.

aired fins without an axis, fulcra on the fins, and a bony skeleton, with the vertebræ convex in front and concave behind, forming a ball and socket joint. See Ganoidel.

edianum) resembling the shad, but of little value. -- To fret the gizzard, to harass; to vex one's self; to worry. [Low] Hudibras. -- To stick in one's gizzard, to be difficult of digestion; to be offensive. [Low]

The median, convex lobe of the head of a trilobite. See Trilobite.

Having a good temper; not easily vexed. See Good-natured.

dyed in grain. Spenser. -- To go against the grain of (a person), to be repugnant to; to vex, irritate, mortify, or trouble.

To harass; to weary with vexation. How are superstitious men hagged out of their wits with the fancy of omens. L'Estrange.

a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature oppressed and harass'd out with care. Addison. Vext with lawyers and harass'd with debt. Tennyson.

Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly. Shak.

To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex. My aged muscles harrowed up with whips. Rowe. I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul. Shak.

A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes.

light. Dryden. Hull down, said of a ship so distant that her hull is concealed by the convexity of the sea.

ming of rainy weather when they rose with the sun. Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyaned Vext the dim sea. Tennyson.

Exhibiting a downward convexity caused by unequal growth. Cf. Epinastic.

Downward convexity, or convexity of the inferior surface.