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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.

A claw for anchoring a portable machine. Calling crab. (Zoöl.) See Fiddler., n., 2. -- Crab apple, a small, sour apple, of several kinds; also, the tree which bears it; as, the European crab apple (Pyrus Malus var.sylvestris); the Siberian crab apple (Pyrus baccata); and the American (Pyrus coronaria). -- Crab grass.…

To play on a crowd; to fiddle. [Obs.] "Fiddlers, crowd on." Massinger.

One who plays on a crowd; a fiddler. [Obs.] "Some blind crowder." Sir P. Sidney.

ance, one dependent upon the issue of a struggle. [Colloq.] -- Fighting crab (Zoöl.), the fiddler crab. -- Fighting fish (Zoöl.), a remarkably pugnacious East Indian fish (Betta pugnax), reared by the Siamese for spectacular fish fights.

A fiddle [Obs.] Chaucer.

To play upon a fiddle. [Obs.] Follow me, and fum as you go. B. Jonson.

A fiddle. [Obs.]

Obovate, with a concavity in each side, like the body of a violin; fiddle-shaped; as, a panduriform leaf; panduriform color markings of an animal.

; base. "The rascal many." Spencer. "The rascal people." Shak. While she called me rascal fiddler. Shak.

cotch duck (Zoöl.), the bufflehead; -- called also Scotch teal, and Scotchman. -- Scotch fiddle, the itch. [Low] Sir W. Scott. -- Scotch mist, a coarse, dense mist, like fine rain. -- Scotch nightingale (Zoöl.), the sedge warbler. [Prov. Eng.] -- Scotch pebble. See under pebble. -- Scotch pine (Bot.) See Riga fir.…

gs suck the blood of other insects. -- Soldier crab (Zoöl.) (a) The hermit crab. (b) The fiddler crab. -- Soldier fish (Zoöl.), a bright-colored etheostomoid fish (Etheostoma coeruleum) found in the Mississippi River; -- called also blue darter, and rainbow darter. -- Soldier fly (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species…

Through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light. Dryden. Thick-and-thin block (Naut.), a fiddle block. See under Fiddle. -- Through thick and thin, through all obstacles and difficulties, both great and small. Through thick and thin she followed him. Hudibras. He became the panegyrist, through thick and thin, of a mi…