Rattle
Definition of Rattle
Rat´tle Pronunciation: răt´t'l v. i. | 1. | To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter. | | 2. | To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles. | | 3. | 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. | v. t. | 1. | To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain. | | 2. | To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise. | | 3. | Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game. | | 4. | To scold; to rail at. | n. | 1. | A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum. | | 2. | Noisy, rapid talk. | | 3. | An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken. | | 4. | A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer. | | 5. | A scolding; a sharp rebuke. | | 6. | (Zool.) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound. | | 7. | 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 Râle. |
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