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Idle talk or chat; trifling talk; prate. [They] told the tattle of the day. Swift.

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

Idle talk or chat; tittle-tattle.

Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle. Arbuthnot.

To talk thoughtlessly or without discretion; to tattle; to tell tales. She must burst or blab. Dryden.

A tattler; a telltale.

ly concerns himself with the affairs of others; a meddling person. And not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. 1 Tim. v. 13.

One who prattles, or tells tales; a tattler.

Any bird of the genuis Totanus. See Tattler.

One who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler. The common chat of gossips when they meet. Dryden.

sed; as, the farm lets for $500 a year. See note under Left, v. i. To let on, to tell; to tattle; to divulge something. [Low] -- To let up, to become less severe; to diminish; to cease; as, when the storm lets up. [Colloq.]

Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble. Mere prattle, without practice. Shak.

sphere. The woman'sprovince is to be careful in her economy, and chaste in her affection. Tattler.

ollective name for numerous species of limicoline birds, such as the sandpipers, plovers, tattlers, and many others; -- called also shore birds. -- Sand blast, a process of engraving and cutting glass and other hard substances by driving sand against them by a steam jet or otherwise; also, the apparatus used in the pr…

A wading bird with long legs; as, the green-legged shank, or knot; the yellow shank, or tattler; -- called also shanks.

snipe, any sandpiper. -- Snipe hawk, the marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.] -- Stone snipe, the tattler. -- Summer snipe, the dunlin; the green and the common European sandpipers. -- Winter snipe. See Rock snipe, under Rock. -- Woodcock snipe, the great snipe.

ecies of bee which does not form communities. -- Solitary sandpiper (Zoöl.), an American tattler (Totanus solitarius). -- Solitary snipe (Zoöl.), the great snipe. [Prov. Eng.] -- Solitary thrush (Zoöl.) the starling. [Prov. Eng.]

The yellowlegs; -- called also stone snipe. See Tattler, 2. [Local, U.S.]

ng of a clock. [Scot.] He persevered for a stricken hour in such a torrent of unnecessary tattle. Sir W. Scott. Speeches are spoken by the stricken hour, day after day, week, perhaps, after week. Bayne.

or stories, especially in a mischievous or officious manner; a talebearer; a telltale; a tattler.