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fidagfidal
Fidalgo
fidam
fidap
Fiddle
fiddle around
fiddle away
Fiddle beetle
Fiddle block
Fiddle bow
fiddle dock
fiddle faddle
Fiddle fish
Fiddle pattern
fiddle with
fiddle-de-dee
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fiddle-footed
fiddle-shaped
Fiddle-stick
Fiddle-string
Fiddle-wood
fiddleback
Fiddled
Fiddledeedee
fiddlehead
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Fiddle 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.]
