·noun Noisy, rapid talk.
II. Rattle ·noun A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
III. Rattle ·noun A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
IV. Rattle ·vt To Scold; to rail at.
V. Rattle ·vt To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
VI. Rattle ·noun A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.
VII. Rattle ·vt To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
VIII. Rattle ·noun Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
IX. Rattle ·vi To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.
X. Rattle ·noun An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
XI. Rattle ·vt Hence, to disconcert; to Confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.
XII. Rattle ·vi To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to Clatter.
XIII. Rattle ·vi 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.
XIV. Rattle ·noun 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.