Word Meanings - RATTLE-PATED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Rattle-headed. "A noisy, rattle-pated fellow." W. Irving.

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• HEADSTALL
  That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.
• HEADING
  A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift. (more info) 1. The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head. 2. That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of
• PATTYPAN
  1. A pan for baking patties. 2. A patty.
• PATELLULA
  A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.
• 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
• PATIBULATED
  Hanged on a gallows.
• HEADLAND
  1. A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water. "Sow the headland with wheat." Shak. 2. A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence. Tusser.
• PATENT
  Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous. He had received instructions, both patent and secret. Motley. 2. Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent.
• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• PATOLLI
  An American Indian game analogous to dice, probably originally a method of divination.
• PATERNOSTER
  A beadlike ornament in moldings. (more info) 1. The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version.
• PATRONIZING
  Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another. -- Pat"ron*i`zing*ly, adv. Thackeray.
• PATEN
  The place on which the consecrated bread is placed in the Eucharist, or on which the host is placed during the Mass. It is usually small, and formed as to fit the chalice, or cup, as a cover. (more info) 1. A plate.
• HEADNOTE
  A note at the head of a page or chapter; in law reports, an abstract of a case, showing the principles involved and the opinion of the court.
• PATROONSHIP
  The office of a patroon. Irving.
• PATRONYMIC
  Derived from ancestors; as, a patronymic denomination.
• HEADFISH
  The sunfish .
• PATRONIZER
  One who patronizes.
• PATELLAR
  Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneepan.
• PATIBLE
  Sufferable; tolerable; endurable. Bailey.
• COMPATIENT
  Suffering or enduring together. Sir G. Buck.
• BEASTLIHEAD
  Beastliness. Spenser.
• THORN-HEADED
  Having a head armed with thorns or spines. Thorn-headed worm , any worm of the order Acanthocephala; -- called also thornhead.
• INCREPATION
  A chiding; rebuke; reproof. Hammond.
• TORSION HEAD
  That part of a torsion balance from which the wire or filament is suspended.
• SPATULATE
  Shaped like spatula, or like a battledoor, being roundish, with a long, narrow, linear base.
• OVERPATIENT
  Patient to excess.
• ADDLE-BRAIN; ADDLE-HEAD; ADDLE-PATE
  A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
• SYMPATHETIC
  1. Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing. Far wiser he, whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind. Goldsmith. 2. Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy. Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. Gray. Produced by sympathy; --
• PITTLE-PATTLE
  To talk unmeaningly; to chatter or prattle. Latimer.
• BULLHEAD
  A small black water insect. E. Phillips. Bullhead whiting , the kingfish of Florida . (more info) A fresh-water fish of many species, of the genus Uranidea, esp. U. gobio of Europe, and U. Richardsoni of the United States; -- called also miller's
• NUNCUPATE
  1. To declare publicly or solemnly; to proclaim formally. In whose presence did St. Peter nuncupate it Barrow. 2. To dedicate by declaration; to inscribe; as, to nuncupate a book. Evelyn.
• SPATE
  A river flood; an overflow or inundation. Burns. Gareth in a showerful spring Stared at the spate. Tennyson.
• INCOMPATIBLY
  In an incompatible manner; inconsistently; incongruously.
• DODIPATE; DODIPOLL
  A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead. Some will say, our curate is naught, an ass-head, a dodipoll. Latimer.