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The act or habit of chattering. [Colloq.]

A bird of the family Ampelidæ -- so called from its monotonous note. The Bohemion chatterer (Ampelis garrulus) inhabits the arctic regions of both continents. In America the cedar bird is a more common species. See Bohemian chatterer, and Cedar bird.

king inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter.

ound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds. Clattering loud with clamk. Longfellow.

One who clatters.

With clattering.

Wearing a cravat. The young men faultlessly appointed, handsomely cravatted. Thackeray.

To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood. Dryden.

One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility.

To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. To flatten a sail (Naut.), to set it more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel. -- Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders are flattened for window glass.

One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens.

One who flatters. The most abject flaterers degenerate into the greatest tyrants. Addison.

That flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as, a flattering speech. Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. Shak. A flattering painter, who made it his care, To draw men as they ought be, not as they are. Goldsmith.

With flattery.

The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. Burke.

A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europæus).

A low-grade actor or performer. [Theatrical Slang]

pl. of Hote, to be called. See Hote. [Obs.] Chaucer. A full perilous place, purgatory it hatte. Piers Plowman.

Covered with a hat.

To tire or worry; -- out. [Obs.] Dryden.