FIDDLES
Noun
fiddles
plural of fiddle
Verb
fiddles
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fiddle
Source: Wiktionary
FIDDLE
Fid"dle, n. Etym: [OE. fidele, fithele, AS. fi; akin to D. vedel,
OHG. fidula, G. fiedel, Icel. fi, and perh. to E. viol. Cf. Viol.]
1. (Mus.)
Definition: A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a
kit.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; --
called also fiddle dock.
3. (Naut.)
Definition: 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 (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), 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.]
Fid"dle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fiddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Fiddling.]
1. To play on a fiddle.
Themistocles . . . said he could not fiddle, but he could make a
small town a great city. Bacon.
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.
Talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers. Pepys.
Fid"dle, v. t.
Definition: To play (a tune) on a fiddle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition