Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FIC'TIOUS, a. [for Fictitious, not used.]

FIC-TI'TIOUS, a. [L. fictitius, from fingo, to feign.]

1. Feigned; imaginary; not real. The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones. Pope.
2. Counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame. Dryden.

FIC-TI'TIOUS-LY, adv.

By fiction; falsely; counterfeitly.

FIC-TI'TIOUS-NESS, n.

Feigned representation. Brown.

FIC'TIVE, a.

Feigned. [Not used.]

FIC'TOR, n. [L.]

An artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in clay. Elmes.

FID, n.

1. A square bar of wood or iron, with a shoulder at one end, used to support the top-mast, when erected at the head of the lower mast. Mar. Dict.
2. A pin of hard wood or iron, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splising. Mar. Dict.

FID'DLE, n. [G. fiedel; D. vedel; L. fides, fidicula.]

A stringed instrument of music; a violin.

FID'DLE, v.i.

1. To play on a fiddle or violin. Themistocles said he could not fiddle, but he could make a small town a great city. Bacon. It is said that Nero fiddled when Rome was In flames. History.
2. To trifle; to shift the hands often and do nothing, like a fellow that plays on a fiddle. Good cooks can not abide what they call fiddling work. Swift.

FID'DLE, v.t.

To play a tune on a fiddle.

FID'DLE-FAD-DLE, a.

Trifling; making a bustle about nothing. [Vulgar.]

FID'DLE-FAD-DLE, n.

Trifles. [A low cant word.] Spectator.

FID'DLER, n.

One who plays on a fiddle or violin.

FID'DLE-STICK, n.

The bow and string with which a fiddler plays on a violin.

FID'DLE-STRING, n.

The string of a fiddle, fastened at the ends and elevated in the middle by a bridge.

FID'DLE-WOOD, n.

A plant of the genus Citharexylon.

FID'DLING, n.

The act of playing on a fiddle. Bacon.

FID'DLING, ppr.

Playing on a fiddle.

FI'DE-JUS-SION, n.

Suretyship; the act of being bound as surety for another.

FI'DE-JUS-SOR, n. [L.]

A surety; one bound for another. Blackstone.

FI-DEL'I-TY, n. [L. fidelitas, from fides, faith, fido, to trust. See Faith.]

1. Faithfulness; careful and exact observance of duty, or performance of obligations. We expect fidelity in a public minister, in an agent or trustee, in a domestic servant, in a friend. The best security for the fidelity of men, is to make interest coincide with duty. Federalist, Hamilton.
2. Firm adherence to a person or party with which one is united, or to which one is bound; loyalty; as, the fidelity of subjects to their king or government; the fidelity of a tenant or liege to his lord.
3. Observance of the marriage covenant; as the fidelity of a husband or wife.
4. Honesty; veracity; adherence to truth; as, the fidelity of a witness.

FIDGE, or FIDG'ET, v.i. [allied probably to fickle.]

To move one way and the other; to move irregularly or in fits and starts. [A low word.] Swift.

FIDG'ET, n.

Irregular motion; restlessness. [Vulgar.]

FIDG'ET-Y, a.

Restless; uneasy. [Vulgar.]

FI-DU'CIAL, a. [from L. fiducia, from fido, to trust]

1. Confident; undoubting; firm; as, a fiducial reliance on the promises of the Gospel.
2. Having the nature of a trust; as, fiducial power. Spelman.