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- English Word Raton Definition A small rat.
- English Word Ratoon Definition Same as Rattoon, n.
- English Word Ratoon Definition A rattan cane.
- English Word Ratoon Definition Same as Rattoon, v. i.
- English Word Ratsbane Definition Rat poison; white arsenic.
- English Word Ratsbaned Definition Poisoned by ratsbane.
- English Word Rattan Definition One of the long slender flexible stems of several species of palms of the genus Calamus, mostly East Indian, though some are African and Australian. They are exceedingly tough, and are used for walking sticks, wickerwork, chairs and seats of chairs, cords and cordage, and many other purposes.
- English Word Ratted Definition of Rat
- English Word Ratteen Definition A thick woolen stuff quilled or twilled.
- English Word Ratten Definition To deprive feloniously of the tools used in one's employment (as by breaking or stealing them), for the purpose of annoying; as, to ratten a mechanic who works during a strike.
- English Word Ratter Definition One who, or that which, rats, as one who deserts his party.
- English Word Ratter Definition Anything which catches rats; esp., a dog trained to catch rats; a rat terrier. See Terrier.
- English Word Rattinet Definition A woolen stuff thinner than ratteen.
- English Word Ratting Definition of Rat
- English Word Ratting Definition The conduct or practices of one who rats. See Rat, v. i., 1.
- English Word Ratting Definition The low sport of setting a dog upon rats confined in a pit to see how many he will kill in a given time.
- English Word Rattle Definition To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.
- English Word Rattle Definition To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.
- English Word Rattle Definition 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.
- English Word Rattle Definition To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
- English Word Rattle Definition To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
- English Word Rattle Definition Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.
- English Word Rattle Definition To scold; to rail at.
- English Word Rattle Definition A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.
- English Word Rattle Definition Noisy, rapid talk.
- English Word Rattle Definition An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
- English Word Rattle Definition A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
- English Word Rattle Definition A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
- English Word Rattle Definition Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
- English Word Rattle Definition 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.