Word Meanings - FIDDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.

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• PLAY
  quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• MUSIC HALL
  A place for public musical entertainments; specif. , esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium.
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• PLAYTE
  See PLEYT
• MUSICALLY
  In a musical manner.
• STRING
  An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it. (more info) G. strang, Icel. strengr, Sw. sträng, Dan. stræng; probably from the adj., E. strong ; or perhaps originally meaning, twisted,
• MUSIC DRAMA
  An opera in which the text and action are not interrupted by set arias, duets, etc., the music being determined throughout by dramatic appropriateness; musical drama of this character, in general. It involves the use of a kind of melodious
• STRINGER
  A longitudinal sleeper. (more info) 1. One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows. Be content to put your trust in honest stringers. Ascham. 2. A libertine; a wencher. Beau. & Fl.
• STRINGINESS
  Quality of being stringy.
• PLAYFELLOW
  A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate. Shak.
• MUSICALE
  A social musical party.
• INSTRUMENTALITY
  The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense
• INSTRUMENTATION
  1. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency. Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. H. Bushnell. The arrangement of a musical
• STRINGHALT
  An habitual sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive contraction of the muscles that raise the hock.
• STRINGY
  1. Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root. 2. Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely. Stringy bark , a name given in Australia to several trees of the genus
• PLAYTHING
  A thing to play with; a toy; anything that serves to amuse. A child knows his nurse, and by degrees the playthings of a little more advanced age. Locke.
• PLAYSOME
  Playful; wanton; sportive. R. Browning. -- Play"some*ness, n.
• MUSICOMANIA
  A kind of monomania in which the passion for music becomes so strong as to derange the intellectual faculties. Dunglison.
• NAVEL-STRING
  The umbilical cord.
• PHILOMUSICAL
  Loving music. Busby.
• MEDAL PLAY
  Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.
• SPLAYFOOT
  A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot.
• ASTRINGENCY
  The quality of being astringent; the power of contracting the parts of the body; that quality in medicines or other substances which causes contraction of the organic textures; as, the astringency of tannin.
• HORSEPLAY
  Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden.
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• SPLAYMOUTH
  A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden.
• WORDPLAY
  A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words.
• ROUGHSTRINGS
  Pieces of undressed timber put under the steps of a wooden stair for their support.
• SUBASTRINGENT
  Somewhat astringent.
• ASTRINGE
  1. To bind fast; to constrict; to contract; to cause parts to draw together; to compress. Which contraction . . . astringeth the moistuBacon. 2. To bind by moral or legal obligation. Wolsey.