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2,142 words match “ATTER”

ATTER n.
Poison; venom; corrupt matter from a sore. [Obs.] Holland.
ATTERCOP n. 2 definitions
A spider. [Obs.]
ATTERRATE v.
To fill up with alluvial earth. [Obs.] Ray.
ATTERRATION n.
The act of filling up with earth, or of forming land with alluvial earth. [Obs.]
BATTER v. 9 definitions
To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.
BATTERER n.
One who, or that which, batters.
BATTERING TRAIN n.
A train of artillery for siege operations.
BATTERING-RAM n. 2 definitions
1. (Mil.) An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places.
BATTERY n. 11 definitions
The act of battering or beating.
BEFLATTER v.
To flatter excessively.
BESCATTER v. 2 definitions
To scatter over.
BESPATTER v. 2 definitions
To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.
BLATTER v.
To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. [Archaic] "The rain blattered." Jeffrey. They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer.
BLATTERATION n.
Blattering.
BLATTERER n.
One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster.
BLATTERING n.
Senseless babble or boasting.
BLATTEROON n.
A senseless babbler or boaster. [Obs.] "I hate such blatteroons." Howell.
BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER n.
See under Battery, and Burner.
CHATTER v. 6 definitions
mble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct. The jaw makes answer, as the magpie chatters. Wordsworth.
CHATTERATION n.
The act or habit of chattering. [Colloq.]
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