Rattle

v. i.	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. [imp. & p. p. Rattled (-t'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Rattling (-tlĭng).] And the rude hail in rattling tempest forms. - Addison. 'T was but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street. - Byron.
	2.	To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.
	3.	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.
v. t.	1.	To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
	2.	To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise. Sound but another [drum], and another shall As loud as thine rattle the welkin's ear. - Shak.
	3.	Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.
	4.	To scold; to rail at. To rattle off a - To tell glibly or noisily; as, to rattle off a story. b - To rail at; to scold. - Arbuthnot.
n.	1.	A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.
	2.	Noisy, rapid talk. All this ado about the golden age is but an empty rattle and frivolous conceit. - Hakewill.
	3.	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.
	4.	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.
	5.	A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
	6.	(Zool.) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
	7.	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.

Noun	1.	rattle - a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders); "the death rattle" Synonyms: rale, rattling
	2.	rattle - a baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken
	3.	rattle - loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail
Verb	1.	rattle - make short successive sounds
	2.	rattle - shake and cause to make a rattling noise

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