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To make (anything) by tatting; to work at tatting; as, tatted edging.

A bamboo frame or trellis hung at a door or window of a house, over which water is suffered to trickle, in order to moisten and cool the air as it enters. [India]

One who makes tatting. Caulfield & S. (Doct. of Needlework).

A ragged fellow; a ragamuffin. L'Estrange.

A famous horse market in London, established in 1766 by Richard Tattersall, also used as the headquarters of credit betting on English horse races; hence, a large horse market elsewhere.

A kind of lace made from common sewing thread, with a peculiar stitch. Tatting shuttle, the shuttle on which the thread used in tatting is wound.

To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to chat. The tattling quality of age, which is always narrative. Dryden.

One who tattles; an idle talker; one who tells tales. Jer. Taylor.

Idle talk or chat; tittle-tattle.

Given to idle talk; apt to tell tales. -- Tat"tling*ly, adv.

treat, or to repair to their quarters in garrison, or to their tents in camp. The Devil's tattoo. See under Devil.

A mat or screen of fibers, as of the kuskus grass, hung at a door or window and kept wet to moisten and cool the air as it enters. [India]

Of or pert. to Hallstatt, Austria, or the Hallstatt civilization. -- Hallstatt, or Hallstattian, civilization, a prehistoric civilization of central Europe, variously dated at from 1000 to 1500 b. c. and usually associated with the Celtic or Alpine race. It was characterized by expert use of bronze, a knowledge of iron…

The act of making necessary, or the state of being made necessary; compulsion. [R.] bp. Bramhall.

Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle. Arbuthnot.

The act or habit of parting idly or gossiping.

Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in

, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc. To beat down, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower price; to force down. [Colloq.] -- To beat into, to teach or instill, by repetition. -- To beat off, to repel or drive back. -- To…

ants of tapestried hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. Sir W. Scott.

Torn in pieces; tattered.