| n. | 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3. | (Naut.) A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather.
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| v. i. | 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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| v. t. | 1. | To play (a tune) on a fiddle. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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