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English → English (gcide) Definition: Rhinanthus Crista-galli Rattle \Rat"tle\, n. 1. A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 2. Noisy, rapid talk. [1913 Webster] All this ado about the golden age is but an empty rattle and frivolous conceit. --Hakewill. [1913 Webster] 3. An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken. [1913 Webster] The rattles of Isis and the cymbals of Brasilea nearly enough resemble each other. --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster] Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 4. A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 5. A scolding; a sharp rebuke. [Obs.] --Heylin. [1913 Webster] 6. (Zo["o]l.) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound. [1913 Webster] Note: 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. [1913 Webster] 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 R[^a]le. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Cockscomb \Cocks"comb`\ (k[o^]ks"k[=o]m`), n. [1st cock, n. + comb crest.] 1. See Coxcomb. [1913 Webster] 2. (Bot.) A plant (Celosia cristata), of many varieties, cultivated for its broad, fantastic spikes of brilliant flowers; -- sometimes called garden cockscomb. Also the Pedicularis, or lousewort, the Rhinanthus Crista-galli , and the Onobrychis Crista-galli. [1913 Webster]

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