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The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse.

To cause to make a ratting or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.

A toy that makes a rattle sound; a rattle.

e a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp ratting sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diamond rattlesnake of the south (C. adamanteus), are the best known. See Illust. of Fang. Ground rattlesnake (Zoöl.), a small ra…

Harshness of sound; rough utterance; hoarseness; as, the raucity of a trumpet, or of the human voice.

Rebellowing; resounding loudly. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

To make whole again; a renew; to restore to integrity or soundness. The English nation seems obliterated. What could redintegrate us again Coleridge.

Restoration to a whole or sound state; renewal; renovation. Dr. H. More.

To give echoes; to return back, or be reverberated, as an echo; to resound; to be resonant. And a loud groan reëchoes from the main. Pope.

Thrown back after striking a surface; as, reflected light, heat, sound, etc.

The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a surface. See Angle of reflection, below. The eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things. Shak.

A device for reflecting sound.

To restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury, dilapidation, or partial destruction; to renew; to restore; to mend; as, to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship; to repair a shattered fortune. Secret refreshings that repair his strength. Milton. Do thou, as thou art wont, repair My heart with gladness. Wo…

Capable of being repaired, restored to a sound or good state, or made good; restorable; as, a reparable injury.

ck, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound. Ever echoing back in endless repercussion. Hare.

ving the power of sending back; causing to reverberate. Ye repercussive rocks! repeat the sound. W. Pattison.

Return or repercussion, as of sound; echo. To hear the replication of your sounds. Shak.

To return or repeat, as sound; to echo. [Obs. or R.] "A church with windowss only form above, that reporteth the voice thirteen times." Bacon.

The act of resiling, springing back, or rebounding; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound.

The act of resounding; the quality or state of being resonant.