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Definitions for: Fiddle [n] bowed stringed instrument that is 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
[v] manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination; "She played nervously with her wedding ring"; "Don't fiddle with the screws"; "He played with the idea of running for the Senate"
[v] play the violin or fiddle
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.]
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.
Fid"dle, v. t.
To play (a tune) on a fiddle.
Synonyms: diddle, play, toy, violin
See Also: Amati, bowed stringed instrument, chin rest, entertain, fiddlestick, flirt with, Guarnerius, manipulate, play, Strad, Stradavarius, string, think about, think of, toy with, violin bow
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