These are the meanings of the letters FTNERR when you unscramble them.
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Fern (adv.)
Long ago.
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Fern (a.)
Ancient; old. [Obs.] \"Pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes.\" [saints].
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Fern (n.)
An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size.
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Fret (n.)
See 1st Frith.
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Fret (v. t.)
To devour.
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Fret (v. t.)
To rub; to wear away by friction; to chafe; to gall; hence, to eat away; to gnaw; as, to fret cloth; to fret a piece of gold or other metal; a worm frets the plants of a ship.
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Fret (v. t.)
To impair; to wear away; to diminish.
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Fret (v. t.)
To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple; as, to fret the surface of water.
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Fret (v. t.)
To tease; to irritate; to vex.
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Fret (v. i.)
To be worn away; to chafe; to fray; as, a wristband frets on the edges.
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Fret (v. i.)
To eat in; to make way by corrosion.
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Fret (v. i.)
To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle; as, rancor frets in the malignant breast.
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Fret (v. i.)
To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions.
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Fret (n.)
The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
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Fret (n.)
Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret.
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Fret (n.)
Herpes; tetter.
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Fret (n.)
The worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones containing them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins.
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Fret (v. t.)
To ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify.
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Fret (n.)
Ornamental work in relief, as carving or embossing. See Fretwork.
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Fret (n.)
An ornament consisting of smmall fillets or slats intersecting each other or bent at right angles, as in classical designs, or at obilique angles, as often in Oriental art.
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Fret (n.)
The reticulated headdress or net, made of gold or silver wire, in which ladies in the Middle Ages confined their hair.
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Fret (n.)
A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
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Fret (n.)
A short piece of wire, or other material fixed across the finger board of a guitar or a similar instrument, to indicate where the finger is to be placed.
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Fret (v. t.)
To furnish with frets, as an instrument of music.
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Reft (imp. & p. p.)
Bereft.
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Reft (n.)
A chink; a rift. See Rift.
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Reft ()
of Reave
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Rent (imp. & p. p.)
of Rend
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Rent (v. i.)
To rant.
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Rent ()
imp. & p. p. of Rend.
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Rent (n.)
An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.
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Rent (n.)
Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.
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Rent (v. t.)
To tear. See Rend.
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Rent (n.)
Income; revenue. See Catel.
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Rent (n.)
Pay; reward; share; toll.
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Rent (n.)
A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.
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Rent (n.)
To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.
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Rent (n.)
To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.
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Rent (v. i.)
To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.
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Tern (n.)
Any one of numerous species of long-winged aquatic birds, allied to the gulls, and belonging to Sterna and various allied genera.
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Tern (a.)
Threefold; triple; consisting of three; ternate.
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Tern (a.)
That which consists of, or pertains to, three things or numbers together; especially, a prize in a lottery resulting from the favorable combination of three numbers in the drawing; also, the three numbers themselves.