Word Meanings - BERATTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To make rattle; to scold vociferously; to cry down. Shak.
Related words: (words related to BERATTLE)
- 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.