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Rattle
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. i.) To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.
(2):
(v. i.) To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.
(3):
(n.) Noisy, rapid talk.
(4):
(v. i.) 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.
(5):
(v. t.) To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
(6):
(v. t.) To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
(7):
(v. t.) Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.
(8):
(v. t.) To scold; to rail at.
(9):
(n.) A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.
(10):
(n.) An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
(11):
(n.) A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
(12):
(n.) A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
(13):
(n.) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
(14):
(n.) 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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Rattle'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/rattle.html. 1828.
