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Fiddle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A stringed instrument of music; a violin.

Fiddle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To play on a fiddle or violin.

2. Themistocles said he could not fiddle but he could make a small town a great city.

3. It is said that Nero fiddled, when Rome was in flames.

4. To trifle; to shift the hands often and do nothing, like a fellow that plays on a fiddle

5. Good cooks cannot abide what they call fiddling work.

Fiddle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To play a tune on a fiddle

Fiddle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.

2. A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock.

3. A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather.

Fiddle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To play on a fiddle.

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.

Fiddle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To play (a tune) on a fiddle.

Fiddle-faddle [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Trifling; making a bustle about nothing. [Vulgar.]

Fiddle-faddle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Trifles. [A low cant word.]

Fiddle-faddle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To talk nonsense.

Fiddle-shaped [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side.

Fiddle-stick [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The bow and string with which a fiddler plays on a violin.

Fiddle-string [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The string of a fiddle, fastened at the ends and elevated in the middle by a bridge.

Fiddle-wood [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plant of the genus Citharexylon.

Fiddled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Fiddle

Fiddledeedee [Interjection] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An exclamatory word or phrase, equivalent to nonsense!

Fiddler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who plays on a fiddle or violin.

Fiddler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who plays on a fiddle or violin.

2. A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle, hence the name; -- called also calling crab, soldier crab, and fighting crab.

3. The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus); -- so called because it continually oscillates its body.

Fiddlestick [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow.

Fiddlestring [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One of the catgut strings of a fiddle.

Fiddlewood [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The wood of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genus Citharexylum.