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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

• Fiddle-faddle

  ·vi To talk nonsense. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Fiddle-shaped

  ·adj Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• fiddle faddle

  Trifling discourse, nonsense. A mere fiddle faddle fellow; a trifier. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• scotch fiddle

  The itch. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• welch fiddle

  The itch. See scotch fiddle. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• fiddle-back

  n. name given inAustralia to the beetle, Schizorrhina australasiae. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• 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.

• 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

• fiddle-fish

  A name of the king-crab (Limulus polyphemus), from its supposed resemblance to that instrument. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• 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

• (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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.