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A square bar of wood or iron, used to support the topmast, being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel, and resting on the trestle trees.

The lowest title of nobility in Portugal, corresponding to that of Hidalgo in Spain.

A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock.

A trifle; trifling talk; nonsense. [Colloq.] Spectator.

Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side. Gray.

An exclamatory word or phrase, equivalent to nonsense! [Colloq.]

One who plays on a fiddle or violin.

The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow.

One of the catgut strings of a fiddle.

The wood of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genus Citharexylum.

The act or state of being bound as surety for another; suretyship.

A surety; one bound for another, conjointly with him; a guarantor. Blackstone.

Adherence to a person or party to which one is bound; loyalty. Whose courageous fidelity was proof to all danger. Macaulay. The best security for the fidelity of men is to make interest coincide with duty. A. Hamilton.

Faith personified as a goddess; the goddess of faith.

See Fidget. [R.] Swift.

To move uneasily one way and the other; to move irregularly, or by fits and starts. Moore.

Quality of being fidgety.

Restless; uneasy. Lowell.

A genus of small beetles, of which one species (the grapevine Fidia, F. longipes) is very injurious to vines in America.

Of or pertaining to a stringed instrument.