| • | To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter. |
| • | To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain. |
| • | To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise. |
| • | Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game. |
| • | To scold; to rail at. |
| • | A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum. |
| • | Noisy, rapid talk. |
| • | An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken. |
| • | A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer. |
| • | A scolding; a sharp rebuke. |
| • | Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound. |
| • | 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 R/le. |
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