Word Meanings - RATTLESNAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp rattling sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diamond rattlesnake of the South (C. adamanteus), are the best known. See Illust. of Fang.

• Sharped
  of Sharp
• SOUTHWARDSOUTHWARDS
  Toward the south, or toward a point nearer the south than the east or west point; as, to go southward.
• Sharp-witted
  Having an acute or nicely discerning mind.
• Commoner
  One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.
• Southcottian
  A follower of Joanna Southcott (1750-1814), an Englishwoman who, professing to have received a miraculous calling, preached and prophesied, and committed many impious absurdities.
• Diamond-back
  The salt-marsh terrapin of the Atlantic coast (Malacoclemmys palustris).
• Southly
  Southerly.
• Generalize
  To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.
• Southwestwardly
  Toward the southwest.
• Unitarianize
  To change or turn to Unitarian views.
• Interlock
  To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly.
• Rattler
  One who, or that which, rattles.
• RATTLEHEADED
  Noisy; giddy; unsteady.
• Sharping
  of Sharp
• SOUTHWESTWARDSOUTHWESTWARDLY
  Toward the southwest.
• Snakestone
  A kind of hone slate or whetstone obtained in Scotland.
• Commonish
  Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.
• Southdown
  Of or pertaining to the South Downs, a range of pasture hills south of the Thames, in England.

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