(intransitive) To waste time; spend time idly.

(music) double bass (lowest-pitched of instruments of violin family)

(music) A double bass. (lowest-pitched of instruments of violin family)

A Japanese carabid beetle (Carabus blaptoides).

(nautical) 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.

(slang, now historical) Scabies; an itch.

(music) Any of a number of stringed instruments in which the handle passes diametrically through the resonator and which are played with a bow.

Any of several Tuvan and Mongolian traditional stringed instruments, especially the igil or the morin khuur, characterized by the head of a horse being carved into its headstock.

A type of fiddle typical of Norwegian folk music, characterized by thinner wood than a standard fiddle and the use of either eight or nine strings, four to five of which are sympathetic.

(music) Synonym of nyckelharpa