Word Meanings - RUTTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A rattling sound in the throat arising from difficulty of breathing; a rattle.

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• 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
• ARISTATE
  Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.
• THROATLATCH
  A strap of a bridle, halter, or the like, passing under a horse's throat.
• ARISTARCH
  A severe critic. Knowles.
• BREATHLESS
  1. Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath. 2. Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear, expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the breath; as, breathless attention. But breathless, as we grow
• ARISTARCHIAN
  Severely critical.
• ARISTOTELIANISM
  The philosophy of Aristotle, otherwise called the Peripatetic philosophy.
• SOUNDLY
  In a sound manner.
• ARISTOCRAT
  1. One of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble. 2. One who is overbearing in his temper or habits; a proud or haughty person. A born aristocrat, bred radical. Mrs. Browning. 3. One who favors
• RATTLETRAP
  Any machine or vehicle that does not run smoothly. A. Trollope.
• SOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
• RATTLE
  1. To cause to make a ratting or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain. 2. To assail, annoy, or stun with a ratting noise. Sound but another , and another shall As loud as thine rattle the welkin's ear. Shak. 3. Hence, to disconcert; to confuse;
• BREATHABLE
  Such as can be breathed.
• RATTLEWINGS
  The golden-eye.
• RATTLEWEED
  Any plant of the genus Astragalus. See Milk vetch.
• ARISTOTELIAN
  Of or pertaining to Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher -- n.
• BREATHER
  1. One who breathes. Hence: One who lives. One who utters. One who animates or inspires. 2. That which puts one out of breath, as violent exercise.
• BREATHING
  1. Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air. Subject to a difficulty of breathing. Melmoth. 2. Air in gentle motion. 3. Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration; as, the breathings of the Spirit. 4. Aspiration; secret prayer.
• DIFFICULTY
  difficilis difficult; dif- = dis- + facilis easy: cf. F. difficulté. 1. The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty. Not
• SOUNDING BALLOON
  An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.
• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• IMPARISYLLABIC
  Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as, an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis.
• PANDARISM
  See SWIFT
• PARISYLLABIC; PARISYLLABICAL
  Having the same number of syllables in all its inflections.
• BLUETHROAT
  A singing bird of northern Europe and Asia , related to the nightingales; -- called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler.
• CELLARIST
  See CELLARER
• GARGARISM
  A gargle.
• CITHARISTIC
  Pertaining, or adapted, to the cithara.
• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• CESARISM
  See CæSARISM
• CLARISONUS
  Having a clear sound. Ash.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• ALTARIST
  A chaplain. A vicar of a church.
• SEMINARIAN; SEMINARIST
  A member of, or one educated in, a seminary; specifically, an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary.
• VOLUNTARISM
  Any theory which conceives will to be the dominant factor in experience or in the constitution of the world; -- contrasted with intellectualism. Schopenhauer and Fichte are typical exponents of the two types of metaphysical voluntarism, Schopenhauer