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Rattle-headed. "A noisy, rattle-pated fellow." W. Irving.

An empty, noisy talker.

A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal. This day in mirth and revel to dispend. Chaucer. Some men ruin . . . their bodies by incessant revels. Rambler. Master of the revels, Revel master. Same as Lord of misrule, under Lord.

The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling. And pomp and feast and revelry. Milton.

in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. See Roaring, 2. Roaring boy, a roaring, noisy fellow; -- name given, at the latter end Queen Elizabeth's reign, to the riotous fellows who raised disturbances in the street. "Two roaring boys of Rome, that made all split." Beau & Fl. -- Roaring forties (Naut.), a sailo…

onged sound, as of a large beast, or of a person in distress, anger, mirth, etc., or of a noisy congregation.

To bluster; to swagger; to bully; to be bold, noisy, vaunting, or turbulent. I have a roisting challenge sent amongst The dull and factious nobles of the Greeks. Shak.

ell," I said, "Among the graves to shout; To laugh and play among the dead, And make this noisy rout." Trench.

A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl. [Colloq.] Byron.

One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow. M. Arnold.

An uproar; a quarrel; a noisy outbreak. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

A noisy report; rumor. [Obs.] Delighting ever in rumble that is new. Chaucer.

The act of scraping; also, the effect of scraping, as a scratch, or a harsh sound; as, a noisy scrape on the floor; a scrape of a pen.

g them, we nourish 'gainst our senate The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition. Shak. Noisy demagogues who had been accused of sedition. Macaulay.

Noisy; loud. [R.] Shenstone.

To play on an instrument of music, or as on an instrument, in an unskillful or noisy way; to thrum; as, to strum a piano.

One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow. Shak.

tude, usually accompanied with great noise, uproar, and confusion of voices; hurly-burly; noisy confusion. What meaneth the noise of this tumult 1 Sam. iv. 14. Till in loud tumult all the Greeks arose. Pope.

Conducted with disorder; noisy; confused; boisterous; disorderly; as, a tumultuous assembly or meeting.

Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor. But the Jews which believed not, . . . set all the city on an uproar. Acts xvii. 5.