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Word Meanings - BERATTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make rattle; to scold vociferously; to cry down. Shak.

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  • SCOLDER
    1. One who scolds. The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries. The old squaw.
  • RATTLESNAKE
    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 ratting sound when shaken. The common
  • SCOLDINGLY
    In a scolding manner.
  • RATTLETRAP
    Any machine or vehicle that does not run smoothly. A. Trollope.
  • RATTLE
    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. And the rude hail in rattling tempest forms. Addison. 'T was but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er
  • RATTLEWINGS
    The golden-eye.
  • RATTLEWEED
    Any plant of the genus Astragalus. See Milk vetch.
  • RATTLE-HEADED
    Noisy; giddy; unsteady.
  • RATTLEBOX
    1. A toy that makes a rattle sound; a rattle. An American herb , the seeds of which, when ripe, rattle in the inflated pod. Any species of Crotalaria, a genus of yellow-flowered herbs, with inflated, many-seeded pods.
  • SCOLDING
    a. & n. from Scold, v. Scolding bridle, an iron frame. See Brank, n., 2.
  • RATTLEWORT
    See RATTLEBOX
  • RATTLEMOUSE
    A bat. Puttenham.
  • RATTLE-BRAINED
    Giddy; rattle-headed.
  • SCOLD
    To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; to chide sharply or coarsely; -- often with at; as, to scold at a servant. Pardon me, lords, 't is the first time ever I was forced to scold. Shak.
  • RATTLEPATE
    A rattlehead. C. Kingsley.
  • RATTLE-PATED
    Rattle-headed. "A noisy, rattle-pated fellow." W. Irving.
  • RATTLEHEAD
    An empty, noisy talker.
  • RATTLER
    One who, or that which, rattles.
  • PRATTLE
    To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk. (more info) Etym:
  • BERATTLE
    To make rattle; to scold vociferously; to cry down. Shak.
  • OUTSCOLD
    To exceed in scolding. Shak.

 

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