Meanings (ES + gloss)
entrelazado
An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
Remove spills from grill frets with a cloth and brush the frets with a stiff brush when dry and cold.
Went to visit our good neighbor, Mr. Bohun, whose whole house is a cabinet of all elegancies, especially Indian; [...] [A]bove all, his lady's cabinet is adorned on the fret, ceili…
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
traste
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.
The frets of the lute marked whole tones, while those of the guitar were a semi-tone apart.
The long-necked Egyptian Nefer was certainly depicted in the 4th dynasty; and wall-painting of the time of Moses, preserved in the British Museum, shows that it then had frets.
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
comerse la cabeza • preocuparse
To chafe or irritate; to worry.
Had Carry preferred mere wealth, weighed by such a master, to the congenial spirit of her former lover? It fretted the young man even to think of such a possibility. And the visito…
We sometimes perform an operation on the under lip [...] in consequence of / Cancer Labii [cancer of the lips], / Which disease generally arises from the use of a pipe, and the man…
consumir
To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
In all the present cases it is the aortic valves that are the source of the mischief. Vegetations, massive, tough, and often calcareous have formed upon these valves, and as they w…
You may see the surges wear and fret away the basement of the cliff against which they dash themselves, and the mass of broken rock falls into the depth and disappears, and then it…
afanarse • ansiarse • desasosegarse • desosegarse • inquietarse
To be anxious, to worry.
Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. But, after all, I shouldn't have expected nothing different. W…
With this answer Elizabeth was forced to be content; but her own opinion continued the same, and she left him disappointed and sorry. It was not in her nature, however, to increase…