Word Meanings - FUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

FOLLOWING EDGE
See ABOVE
FIDDLE-SHAPED
Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side. Gray.
FIDDLER
A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle, hence the name; -- called also calling crab, soldier crab, and
FIDDLEDEEDEE
An exclamatory word or phrase, equivalent to nonsense!
FIDDLE-FADDLE
A trifle; trifling talk; nonsense. Spectator.
FIDDLESTICK
The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow.
FOLLOWING
1. One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively. Macaulay. 2. Vocation; business; profession.
FOLLOWING SURFACE
See ABOVE
FIDDLESTRING
One of the catgut strings of a fiddle.
FIDDLE
A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.
FIDDLEWOOD
The wood of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genus Citharexylum.
FOLLOWER
1. One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer. 2. A sweetheart; a beau. A. Trollope. The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston. A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box.
FOLLOW
fylgan; akin to D. volgen, OHG. folg, G. folgen, Icel. fylgja, Sw. 1. To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with ; to accompany; to attend. It waves me forth again; I'll follow it. Shak. 2. To endeavor
UNDERFOLLOW
To follow closely or immediately after. Wyclif.