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Welch
·adj ·see <<Welsh>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Fiddle
·vi To play on a fiddle.
II. Fiddle ·vt To play (a tune) on a fiddle.
III. Fiddle ·noun A stringed...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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fiddle
A contrivance to prevent things from rolling off the table in bad weather. It takes its name from it...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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welch comb
The thumb and four fingers.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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welch mile
Like a Welch mile, long and narrow. His story is like a Welch mile, long and tedious.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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welch rabbit
(i. e. a Welch rare-bit) Bread and cheese toasted.
See rabbit.--The Welch are said to be so remarka...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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welch ejectment
To unroof the house, a method practised by landlords in Wales to eject a bad tenant.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Fiddle-faddle
·vi To talk nonsense.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Fiddle-shaped
·adj Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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fiddle faddle
Trifling discourse, nonsense. A mere fiddle faddle fellow; a trifier.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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scotch fiddle
The itch.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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fiddle-back
n.
name given inAustralia to the beetle, Schizorrhina australasiae.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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fiddle faddle
Trifling discourse; nonsense.--Grose. Johnson. Also used adjectively and as a verb.
She said that h...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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fiddle-block
A long shell, having one sheave over the other, and the lower smaller than the upper (see long-tackl...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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fiddle-fish
A name of the king-crab (Limulus polyphemus), from its supposed resemblance to that instrument.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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fiddle-head
When there is no figure; this means that the termination of the head is formed by a scroll turning a...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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(The) Cat and Fiddle
In the parish of St. Benet Sherehog, 1542 (L. and P. H. VIII. XVII. 393).
Earliest mention: "le Cat...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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calf-skin fiddle
A drum. To smack calf's skin; to kiss the book in taking an oath. It is held by the St. Giles's casu...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to play second fiddle
is to take an inferior part in any project or undertaking. A metaphor borrowed from a musical perfor...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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The Cat and Fiddle Cheap
A shop called the "Catt and Fiddell" in the parish of St. Peter in Chepe, 4 Ed. VI. (Lond. I. p.m. I...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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to hang up one's fiddle
To desist; to give up.
When a man loses his temper and ain't cool, he might as well hang up his fid...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.