'Scotch fiddle' definitions:
Definition of 'Scotch fiddle'
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- Scotch \Scotch\, a. [Cf. Scottish.] Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish. [1913 Webster]
- Scotch broom (Bot.), the Cytisus scoparius. See Broom.
- Scotch dipper, or Scotch duck (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), the sedge warbler. [Prov. Eng.]
- Scotch pebble. See under pebble.
- Scotch pine (Bot.) See Riga fir.
- Scotch thistle (Bot.), a species of thistle ({Onopordon acanthium}); -- so called from its being the national emblem of the Scotch. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Scotch fiddle'
From: GCIDE
- Fiddle \Fid"dle\ (f[i^]d"d'l), n. [OE. fidele, fithele, AS. fi[eth]ele; akin to D. vedel, OHG. fidula, G. fiedel, Icel. fi[eth]la, and perh. to E. viol. Cf. Viol.]
- 1. (Mus.) A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Bot.) A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Fiddle beetle (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), the angel fish.
- Fiddle head, See fiddle head in the vocabulary.
- Fiddle pattern, a form of the handles of spoons, forks, etc., somewhat like a violin.
- Scotch fiddle, the itch. (Low)
- To play first fiddle, or To play second fiddle, to take a leading or a subordinate part. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]