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Rattle \Rat"tle\, n.
   1. A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the
      rattle of a drum. --Prior.

   2. Noisy, rapid talk.

            All this ado about the golden age is but an empty
            rattle and frivolous conceit.         --Hakewill.

   3. An instrument with which a ratting sound is made;
      especially, a child's toy that rattle when shaken.

            The rattles of Isis and the cymbals of Brasilea
            nearly enough resemble each other.    --Sir W.
                                                  Raleigh.

            Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. --Pope.

   4. A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.

            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.

   5. A scolding; a sharp rebuke. [Obs.] --Heylin.

   6. (Zo["o]l.) Any organ of an animal having a structure
      adapted to produce a ratting sound.

   Note: The rattle of the 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.

   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}.

   {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.

Cockscomb \Cocks"comb`\ (k[o^]ks"k[=o]m`), n. [1st cock, n. +
   comb crest.]
   1. See {Coxcomb}.

   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}.