Word Meanings - BERATTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make rattle; to scold vociferously; to cry down. Shak.

Related words: (words related to BERATTLE)

• SCOLDER
  1. One who scolds. The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries. The old squaw.
• RATTLESNAKE
  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 ratting sound when shaken. The common
• SCOLDINGLY
  In a scolding manner.
• RATTLETRAP
  Any machine or vehicle that does not run smoothly. A. Trollope.
• RATTLE
  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. And the rude hail in rattling tempest forms. Addison. 'T was but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er
• RATTLEWINGS
  The golden-eye.
• RATTLEWEED
  Any plant of the genus Astragalus. See Milk vetch.
• RATTLE-HEADED
  Noisy; giddy; unsteady.
• RATTLEBOX
  1. A toy that makes a rattle sound; a rattle. An American herb , the seeds of which, when ripe, rattle in the inflated pod. Any species of Crotalaria, a genus of yellow-flowered herbs, with inflated, many-seeded pods.
• SCOLDING
  a. & n. from Scold, v. Scolding bridle, an iron frame. See Brank, n., 2.
• RATTLEWORT
  See RATTLEBOX
• RATTLEMOUSE
  A bat. Puttenham.
• RATTLE-BRAINED
  Giddy; rattle-headed.
• SCOLD
  To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; to chide sharply or coarsely; -- often with at; as, to scold at a servant. Pardon me, lords, 't is the first time ever I was forced to scold. Shak.
• RATTLEPATE
  A rattlehead. C. Kingsley.
• RATTLE-PATED
  Rattle-headed. "A noisy, rattle-pated fellow." W. Irving.
• RATTLEHEAD
  An empty, noisy talker.
• RATTLER
  One who, or that which, rattles.
• PRATTLE
  To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk. (more info) Etym:
• BERATTLE
  To make rattle; to scold vociferously; to cry down. Shak.
• OUTSCOLD
  To exceed in scolding. Shak.