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Word Meanings - CHATTERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter.

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  • MAKE AND BREAK
    Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
  • HABITURE
    Habitude.
  • MAKING-IRON
    A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
  • HABITED
    1. Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd. 2. Fixed by habit; accustomed. So habited he was in sobriety. Fuller. 3. Inhabited. Another world, which is habited by the ghosts of men and women. Addison.
  • COLLISION
    1. The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing. 2. A state of opposition; antagonism; interference. The collision of contrary false principles. Bp. Warburton.
  • INARTICULATELY
    In an inarticulate manner. Hammond.
  • INARTICULATE
    1. Not uttered with articulation or intelligible distinctness, as speech or words. Music which is inarticulate poesy. Dryden. Not jointed or articulated; having no distinct body segments; as, an inarticulate worm. Without a hinge; -- said of an
  • INARTICULATED
    Not articulated; not jointed or connected by a joint.
  • RAPIDLY
    In a rapid manner.
  • CHATTERATION
    The act or habit of chattering.
  • MAKE
    A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer.
  • MAKED
    Made. Chaucer.
  • MAKE-UP
    The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.
  • CHATTER
    Etym: 1. To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct. The jaw makes answer, as the magpie chatters. Wordsworth. 2. To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate. To tame a shrew,
  • MAKESHIFT
    That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
  • TEETH
    pl. of Tooth.
  • TALK
    OD. tolken to interpret, MHG. tolkan to interpret, to tell, to speak indistinctly, Dan. tolke to interpret, Sw. tolka, Icel. t to interpret, t an interpreter, Lith. tulkas an interpreter, tulkanti, tulkoti, to interpret, Russ. tolkovate
  • HABITUATION
    The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.
  • HABITUATE
    1. To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize. Our English dogs, who were habituated to a colder clime. Sir K. Digby. Men are first corrupted . . . and next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices. Tillotson. 2. To settle as an
  • HABITATION
    1. The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy. Denham. 2. Place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house. The Lord . . . blesseth the habitation of the just. Prov. iii. 33.
  • MANTUAMAKER
    One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
  • INHABITATE
    To inhabit.
  • STALKY
    Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk. At the top bears a great stalky head. Mortimer.
  • COHABITER
    A cohabitant. Hobbes.
  • INHABITATIVENESS
    A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
  • BOOTMAKER
    One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
  • BRICKMAKER
    One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
  • UNTALKED
    Not talked; not mentioned; -- often with of. Shak.
  • SAILMAKER
    One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.
  • WIDOW-MAKER
    One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.
  • MATCHMAKER
    1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
  • HAYMAKING
    The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.
  • INHABITANCE; INHABITANCY
    The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy. (more info) 1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of

 

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