Adjacent Words
To pick a quarrelTo pick a thank
To pick at
To pick off
To pick out
To pick to pieces
To pick up
to pieces
To pin
To pin one's faith upon
To pinch at
To pipe in an ivy leaf
To pitch a camp
To pitch into
To place
To play at ducks and drakes
To play booty
To play devil with
To play dummy
To play for love
To play hob
To play into a person's hands
To play off
To play one's cards
To play one's cards well
To play pitch and toss with anything
To play possum
To play rex
To play snow one's cards
To play the fool
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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.]
