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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Rattleth

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Rattle

RAT'TLE, verb intransitive

1. To make a quick sharp noise rapidly repeated, by the collision of bodies not very sonorous. When bodies are sonorous, it is called jingling. We say, the wheels rattle over the pavement.

And the rude hail in rattling tempest forms.

He fagoted his notions as they fell, and if they rhym'd and rattl'd, all was well.

2. To speak eagerly and noisily; to utter words in a clattering manner.

Thus turbulent in rattling tone she spoke.

He rattles it out against popery.

RAT'TLE, verb transitive

1. To cause to make a rattling sound or a rapid succession of sharp sounds; as, to rattle a chain.

2. To stun with noise; to drive with sharp sounds rapidly repeated.

Sound but another, and another shall, as loud as thine, rattle the welkin's ear.

3. To scold; to rail at clamorously; as, to rattle off servants sharply.

RAT'TLE, noun

1. A rapid succession of sharp clattering sounds; as the rattle of a drum.

2. A rapid succession of words sharply uttered; loud rapid talk; clamorous chiding.

3. An instrument with which a clattering sound is made.

The rattles of Isis and the cymbals of Brasilea nearly enough resemble each other.

The rhymes and rattles of the man or boy.

4. A plant of the genus Pedicularis, louse-wort.

Yellow rattle a plant of the genus Rhinanthus.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Rattle-headed

RAT'TLE-HEADED, adjective Noisy; giddy; unsteady.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Rattlesnake

RAT'TLESNAKE, noun A snake that has rattles at the tail, of the genus Crotalus. The rattles consist of articulated horny cells, which the animal vibrates in such a manner as to make a rattling sound. The poison of the rattlesnake is deadly.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Rattlesnake-root

RATTLESNAKE-ROOT, noun A plant or root of the genus Polygala, and another of the genus Prenanthes.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Rattlesnake-weed

RATTLESNAKE-WEED, noun A plant of the genus Eryngium.