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Rattle
v. i.
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To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.
Rattle
v. i.
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To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour.
Rattle
v. t.
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To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
Rattle
v. t.
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To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
Rattle
v. t.
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Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.
Rattle
v. t.
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To scold; to rail at.
Rattle
n.
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A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.
Rattle
n.
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Noisy, rapid talk.
Rattle
n.
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An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
Rattle
n.
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A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
Rattle
n.
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A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
Rattle
n.
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Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
Rattle
n.
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The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See R/le.
Rattlebox
n.
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A toy that makes a rattling sound; a rattle.
Rattlebox
n.
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An American herb (Crotalaria sagittalis), the seeds of which, when ripe, rattle in the inflated pod.
Rattlebox
n.
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Any species of Crotalaria, a genus of yellow-flowered herbs, with inflated, many-seeded pods.
Rattle-brained
a.
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Giddy; rattle-headed.
Rattlehead
n.
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An empty, noisy talker.
Rattle-headed
a.
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Noisy; giddy; unsteady.
Rattlemouse
n.
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A bat.
Rattlepate
n.
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A rattlehead.
Rattle-pated
a.
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Rattle-headed.
Rattler
n.
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One who, or that which, rattles.
Rattlesnake
n.
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Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp rattling sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diamond rattlesnake of the South (C. adamanteus), are the best known. See Illust. of Fang.
Rattletrap
n.
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Any machine or vehicle that does not run smoothly.
Rattleweed
n.
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Any plant of the genus Astragalus. See Milk vetch.
Rattlewings
n.
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The golden-eye.
Rattlewort
n.
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Same as Rattlebox.
Rattlings
n. pl.
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Ratlines.
Rattoon
n.
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One of the stems or shoots of sugar cane of the second year's growth from the root, or later. See Plant-cane.