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v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Blattered ] [ L. blaterare to babble: cf. F. blatérer to bleat. ] To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. [ Archaic ] “The rain blattered.” Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. blateratio a babbling. ] Blattering. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Senseless babble or boasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. blatero, -onis. ] A senseless babbler or boaster. [ Obs. ] “I hate such blatteroons.” Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Clattered p. pr. & vb. n. Clattering. ] [ AS. cla&unr_;rung a rattle, akin to D. klateren to rattle. Cf. Clack. ] 1. To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

Clattering loud with iron clank. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

I see thou dost but clatter. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make a rattling noise with. [ 1913 Webster ]

You clatter still your brazen kettle. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

The goose let fall a golden egg
With cackle and with clatter. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Commotion; disturbance. “Those mighty feats which made such a clatter in story.” Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter. “Hold still thy clatter.” Towneley Myst. (15 th Cent. ). [ 1913 Webster ]

Throw by your clatter
And handle the matter. B. Jonson [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who clatters. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With clattering. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Metal Working) (a) A flat-faced fulling hammer. (b) A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Flattered p. pr. & vb. n. Flattering. ] [ OE. flateren, cf. OD. flatteren; akin to G. flattern to flutter, Icel. flaðra to fawn, flatter: cf. F. flatter. Cf. Flitter, Flutter, Flattery. ] 1. To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by artful and interested commendation or attentions; to blandish; to cajole; to wheedle. [ 1913 Webster ]

When I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net for his feet. Prov. xxix. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

Others he flattered by asking their advice. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of; as, his portrait flatters him. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To use flattery or insincere praise. [ 1913 Webster ]

If it may stand him more in stead to lie,
Say and unsay, feign, flatter, or adjure. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who flatters. [ 1913 Webster ]

The most abject flaterers degenerate into the greatest tyrants. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as, a flattering speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A flattering painter, who made it his care,
To draw men as they ought be, not as they are. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With flattery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Flatteries [ OE. flaterie, OF. flaterie, F. flaterie, fr. flater to flatter, F. flatter; of uncertain origin. See Flatter, v. t. ] The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. [ 1913 Webster ]

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. Burke.

Syn. -- Adulation; compliment; obsequiousness. See Adulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. later, lætter, compar. of lat late. See Late, and cf. Later. ] 1. Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter rain. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of two things, the one mentioned second. [ 1913 Webster ]

The difference between reason and revelation, and in what sense the latter is superior. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Recent; modern. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hath not navigation discovered in these latter ages, whole nations at the bay of Soldania? Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Last; latest; final. [ R. ] “My latter gasp.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Latter harvest, the last part of the harvest. --
Latter spring, the last part of the spring of the year. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Belonging to present times or those recent by comparison. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

pos>n. A Mormon; -- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pointed wooden tool used in glazing leaden lattice. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Lately; of late; recently; at a later, as distinguished from a former, period. [ 1913 Webster ]

Latterly Milton was short and thick. Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Aftermath. ] The latter, or second, mowing; the aftermath. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To exceed in flattering. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Plat to braid. ] One who plats or braids. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Probably fr. OF. platel, F. plateau. See Plateau. ] A large plate or shallow dish on which meat or other food is brought to the table. [ 1913 Webster ]

The attendants . . . speedly brought in several large, smoking platters, filled with huge pieces of beef. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a broad, flat face. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ E. slat to throw or dash about. ] To be careless, negligent, or aswkward, esp. with regard to dress and neatness; to be wasteful. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who is negligent of her dress or house; one who is not neat and nice. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling a slattern; sluttish; slatterny. “The slattern air.” Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste; -- with away. [ R. ] Chesterfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being slatternly; slovenliness; untidiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty. -- adv. In a slatternly manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dance or game played by boys, requiring active exercise. [ Obs. ] Gayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a game in which something round (as a plate) is spun on edge and the name of a player is called; the named player must catch the spinning object before it falls or pay a forfeit. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. & t. To spatter; to splash. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Uproar. Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]