5 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fiddle \Fid"dle\, n. [OE. fidele, fithele, AS fi?ele; akin to
D. vedel, OHG. fidula, G. fiedel Icel. fi?la, and perh. to
E. viol. Cf {Viol}.]
1. (Mus.) A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a
violin; a kit.
2. (Bot.) A kind of dock ({Rumex pulcher}) with fiddle-shaped
leaves; -- called also {fiddle dock}.
3. (Naut.) A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to
keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad
weather. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.
{Fiddle beetle} (Zo["o]l.), a Japanese carabid beetle
({Damaster blaptoides}); -- so called from the form of the
body.
{Fiddle block} (Naut.), a long tackle block having two
sheaves of different diameters in the same plane, instead
of side by side as in a common double block. --Knight.
{Fiddle bow}, fiddlestick.
{Fiddle fish} (Zo["o]l.), the angel fish.
{Fiddle head}, an ornament on a ship's bow, curved like the
volute or scroll at the head of a violin.
{Fiddle pattern}, a form of the handles of spoons, forks,
etc., somewhat like a violin.
{Scotch fiddle}, the itch. Low
{To play} {first, or second}, {fiddle}, to take a leading or
a subordinate part [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fiddle \Fid"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fiddled}; p. pr & vb n.
{Fiddling}.]
1. To play on a fiddle.
Themistocles . . . said he could not fiddle, but he
could make a small town a great city. --Bacon.
2. To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler
does to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy
idleness; to trifle.
Talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers.
--Pepys.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fiddle \Fid"dle\, v. t.
To play (a tune) on a fiddle.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
fiddle
n : the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has
four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted
fingerboard and is played with a bow [syn: {violin}]
v 1: play the violin or fiddle
2: manipulate manually with no purpose or aim often without
being conscious of doing so "She played nervously with
her wedding ring"; "Don't fiddle with the screws" [syn: {toy},
{diddle}, {play}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a
horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.
To Rome said Nero: "If to smoke you turn
I shall not cease to fiddle while you burn."
To Nero Rome replied: "Pray do your worst,
'Tis my excuse that you were fiddling first."
Orm Pludge
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