Fiddle definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary FID'DLE, n. [L. fides ... violin. FID'DLE, v.i. 1. To play on a fiddle or violin. Themistocles said he could not fiddle, but he could make a small town a great city ... and do nothing, like a fellow that plays on a fiddle. Good cooks cannot abide what they call fiddling work. FID'DLE, v.t. To play a tune on a fiddle. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: bowed stringed instrument ... unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow [syn: violin, fiddle] v 1: avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict ...
Scotch fiddle definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Scotch Scotch, a. [Cf. Scottish ... l.), the bufflehead; -- called also Scotch teal, and Scotchman. Scotch fiddle, the itch. [Low] --Sir W. Scott. Scotch mist, a coarse ... the national emblem of the Scotch. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Fiddle Fid"dle, n. [OE. fidele, fithele, AS. fi?ele; akin ... 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 ... on the cabin table in bad weather. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. Fiddle beetle (Zo["o]l.), a Japanese carabid beetle (Damaster ...
Fiddle pattern definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Fiddle Fid"dle, n. [OE. fidele, fithele, AS. fi?ele; akin ... 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 ... 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 ...
Fiddle head definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Fiddle Fid"dle, n. [OE. fidele, fithele, AS. fi?ele; akin ... 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 ... 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 ...
Fiddle fish definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Fiddle Fid"dle, n. [OE. fidele, fithele, AS. fi?ele; akin ... 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 ... 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 ...
fiddle dock definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Fiddle Fid"dle, n. [OE. fidele, fithele, AS. fi?ele; akin ... 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 ... 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 ...
Fiddle bow definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Fiddle Fid"dle, n. [OE. fidele, fithele, AS. fi?ele; akin ... 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 ... 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 ...
Fiddle block definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Fiddle Fid"dle, n. [OE. fidele, fithele, AS. fi?ele; akin ... 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 ... 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 ...
Fiddle beetle definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Fiddle Fid"dle, n. [OE. fidele, fithele, AS. fi?ele; akin ... 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 ... 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 ...
Fiddle-faddle definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary FID'DLE-FADDLE, n ... r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: trivial nonsense [syn: balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle] Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: reduplication of fiddle (fiddlesticks) Date: 1577 nonsense — often used as an interjection Oxford ... of a person or thing) petty, fussy. Etymology: redupl. of FIDDLE Webster's 1913 Dictionary Fiddle-faddle Fid"dle-fad`dle, v. i. To talk nonsense ...
fiddle around definitions Collin's Cobuild Dictionary 1. If you fiddle around or fiddle about with a machine, you do things to it to ... and make it work. Two of them got out to fiddle around with the engine. = tinker PHRASAL VERB: V P with ...
fiddle-footed definitions Merriam Webster's adjective Date: 1941 1. skittish, jumpy < a fiddle-footed horse > 2. prone to wander < the nameless fiddle-footed drifters, the shifty riders who traveled the back trails ...
second fiddle definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: someone who ... a subordinate capacity or plays a secondary role [syn: second fiddle, second banana] 2: a secondary role or function; "he hated to play second fiddle to anyone" Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1809 one that ...
fiddle-shaped definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: (of ... having rounded ends and a contracted center [syn: pandurate, panduriform, fiddle-shaped] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Fiddle-shaped Fid"dle-shaped`, a. (Bot.) Inversely ovate, with a ...