Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Fiddled"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Fiddle \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.

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