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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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1828 Definition
RAT'TLE, v.i.
RAT'TLE, v.t.
RAT'TLE, n.
1913 Definition
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, To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a
clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.
[Colloq.] 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.
[Colloq.] To cause to make a rattling or clattering
sound; as, to rattle a chain.
To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling
noise.
Sound but another [drum], and another shall Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to
rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a
game.
[Colloq.] To scold; to rail at.
L'Estrange.
To rattle off. A
rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of
a drum.
Prior. Noisy, rapid talk.
All this ado about the golden age is but an empty rattle and frivolous conceit. Hakewill. An instrument with which a rattling sound
is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
The rattles of Isis and the cymbals of Brasilea nearly enough resemble each other. Sir W. Raleigh. Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. Pope. A noisy, senseless talker; a
jabberer.
It may seem strange that a man who wrote with so much perspicuity, vivacity, and grace, should have been, whenever he took a part in conversation, an empty, noisy, blundering rattle. Macaulay. A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
[Obs.]
Heylin. Any organ of an animal
having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
* The rattle of a rattlesnake is composed of the hardened terminal scales, loosened in succession, but not cast off, and so modified in form as to make a series of loose, hollow joints. 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.
To spring a rattle, to cause it to sound. -- Yellow rattle (Bot.), a yellow-flowered herb (Rhinanthus Crista-galli), the ripe seeds of which rattle in the inflated calyx. | ||||||||
