fiddle, fydelin, fithelen

i. & t. [A. S. fidhelian.] [FIDDLE, 8.] A. Intransitive : 1. Lit .: To play upon a fiddle. 2. Fig .: To trifle; to shift the hands about often while doing nothing; to fidget about. "The ladies walked, talking and fiddling with their hats and feathers." - Pepys: Diary. *B. Transitive: I. Lit.: To play on a fiddle. II. Figuratively: 1. To worry, to beat. "The devil fiddle them! I am glad they're going." Shakesp.: Henry VIII., i. 3. 2. To drive by degrees. "Somebody else would have been fiddled into it again, if a certain treasonable Jacobite tune had not been timely silenced." - Chesterfield: Miscellanies; Common Sense , 18. fid-dler, *fith-el-er, *fyd-el-are, *fyd-el-er, subst. [A. S. fidhelere ; Icel. fithlari ; M. H. Ger. videlære; Dan. fidler .] fi-dě-jus-sõr, s . [Lat.] [FIDEJUSSION.] 1. Com.: A surety; one bound for another. 2. Law : One who is bound or bail for another; a surety, a bail. "They also take recognizances or stipulations of certain fideju ors in the nature of bail."- Black stone : Com ment ., bk. iii., ch. 4. *fi-dele, a. [Lat. fidelis , from fides =faith, trust.] Faithful. "So long as they were true and fidele unto us."-Henry VIII.: To Sir T. Wyatt.