Word Meanings - TIRL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To quiver; to vibrate; to veer about. 2. To make a ratting or clattering sound by twirling or shaking; as, to tirl at the pin, or latch, of a door.

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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
• CLATTERINGLY
  With clattering.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• LATCHET
  The string that fastens a shoe; a shoestring.
• SOUNDLESS
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
• SHAKINESS
  Quality of being shaky.
• VIBRATE
  brandish, vibrate; akin to Skr. vip to tremble, Icel. veifa to wave, 1. To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff. 2. To mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a pendulum vibrating seconds. 3. To affect with
• RATTEN
  To deprive feloniously of the tools used in one's employment , for the purpose of annoying; as, to ratten a mechanic who works during a strike. J. McCarthy.
• TWIRL
  To move or turn round rapidly; to whirl round; to move and turn rapidly with the fingers. See ruddy maids, Some taught with dexterous hand to twirl the wheel. Dodsley. No more beneath soft eve's consenting star Fandango twirls his jocund castanet.
• RATTINET
  A woolen stuff thinner than ratteen.
• SOUNDLY
  In a sound manner.
• 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.
• SHAKY
  1. Shaking or trembling; as, a shaky spot in a marsh; a shaky hand. Thackeray. 2. Full of shakes or cracks; cracked; as, shaky timber. Gwilt. 3. Easily shaken; tottering; unsound; as, a shaky constitution; shaky business credit.
• SHAKO
  A kind of military cap or headress.
• SHAKESPEAREAN
  Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his
• RATTAN
  One of the long slender flexible stems of several species of palms of the genus Calamus, mostly East Indian, though some are African and Australian. They are exceedingly tough, and are used for walking sticks, wickerwork, chairs and seats of chairs,
• RATTLEWINGS
  The golden-eye.
• CLATTERER
  One who clatters.
• 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
• ATWIRL
  Twisted; distorted; awry. Halliwell.
• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• UNLATCH
  To open or loose by lifting the latch; as, to unlatch a door.
• BRATTISHING
  Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet. (more info) 1. See Brattice, n.
• THROATLATCH
  A strap of a bridle, halter, or the like, passing under a horse's throat.
• RITRATTO
  A picture. Sterne.
• MISSOUND
  To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
• OVERSHAKE
  To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse. Chaucer.