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English Dictionary: fiddled by the DICT Development Group
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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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