Scotch \Scotch\, a. [Cf. {Scottish}.]
   Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its
   inhabitants; Scottish.
   
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   {Scotch broom} (Bot.), the {Cytisus scoparius}. See {Broom}.
      

   {Scotch dipper}, or {Scotch duck} (Zool.), the bufflehead; --
      called also {Scotch teal}, and {Scotchman}.

   {Scotch fiddle}, the itch. [Low] --Sir W. Scott.

   {Scotch mist}, a coarse, dense mist, like fine rain.

   {Scotch nightingale} (Zool.), the sedge warbler. [Prov. Eng.]
      

   {Scotch pebble}. See under {pebble}.

   {Scotch pine} (Bot.) See {Riga fir}.

   {Scotch thistle} (Bot.), a species of thistle ({Onopordon  acanthium}); -- so called from its being the national
      emblem of the Scotch.
      
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Fiddle \Fid"dle\ (f[i^]d"d'l), n. [OE. fidele, fithele, AS.
   fi[eth]ele; akin to D. vedel, OHG. fidula, G. fiedel, Icel.
   fi[eth]la, and perh. to E. viol. Cf. {Viol}.]
   1. (Mus.) A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a
      violin; a kit.
      
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   2. (Bot.) A kind of dock ({Rumex pulcher}) with fiddle-shaped
      leaves; -- called also {fiddle dock}.
      
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   3. (Naut.) A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to
      keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad
      weather. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.
      
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   {Fiddle beetle} (Zool.), a Japanese carabid beetle ({Damaster  blaptoides}); -- so called from the form of the body.

   {Fiddle block} (Naut.), a long tackle block having two
      sheaves of different diameters in the same plane, instead
      of side by side as in a common double block. --Knight.

   {Fiddle bow}, fiddlestick.

   {Fiddle fish} (Zool.), the angel fish.

   {Fiddle head}, See {fiddle head} in the vocabulary.

   {Fiddle pattern}, a form of the handles of spoons, forks,
      etc., somewhat like a violin.

   {Scotch fiddle}, the itch. (Low)

   {To play first fiddle}, or {To play second fiddle}, to take a
      leading or a subordinate part. [Colloq.]
      
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