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Rattlesnake :: Rattlesnake (n.) Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp rattling sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diamond rattlesnake of the South (C. adamanteus), are the best known. See Illust. of Fang..

Sidewinder :: Sidewinder (n.) See Horned rattler, under Horned..

Rattle :: Rattle (v. i.) To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter..

Rattlehead :: Rattlehead (n.) An empty, noisy talker..

Tittle-tattle :: Tittle-tattle (n.) Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle..

Rattle :: Rattle (n.) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.

Cackler :: Cackler (n.) One who prattles, or tells tales; a tattler..

Rattle :: Rattle (v. t.) Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game..

Rattle :: Rattle (n.) An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken..

Rattle :: Rattle (n.) 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..

Prattle :: Prattle (v. t.) To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason..

Viperoides :: Viperoides (n. pl.) A division of serpents which includes the true vipers of the Old World and the rattlesnakes and moccasin snakes of America; -- called also Viperina.

Confabulate :: Confabulate (v. i.) To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.

Rattle :: Rattle (n.) A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer..

Crotaline :: Crotaline (a.) Resembling, or pertaining to, the Crotalidae, or Rattlesnake family..

Crotalaria :: Crotalaria (n.) A genus of leguminous plants; rattlebox.

Rattlepate :: Rattlepate (n.) A rattlehead.

Rattlemouse :: Rattlemouse (n.) A bat.

Prattler :: Prattler (n.) One who prattles.

Cackle :: Cackle (n.) Idle talk; silly prattle.

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