Definition of Rattle-top

1. Noun. North American bugbane found from Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin and south to Georgia.

Exact synonyms: Black Cohosh, Black Snakeroot, Cimicifuga Racemosa
Generic synonyms: Bugbane

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rattle-top

ratteries
ratters
rattery
ratticide
ratticides
rattier
rattiest
rattily
rattiness
rattinet
rattinets
ratting
rattings
rattish
rattle
rattle-top (current term)
rattle down
rattle off
rattle on
rattle snake
rattle someone's cage
rattle the bones
rattle through
rattle trap
rattle weed
rattleback
rattlebacks
rattlebox
rattleboxes
rattlebrain

Literary usage of Rattle-top

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1909)
"... rattle top, etc.), in the October number, 1908, 262-265. Baptisia Tinctoria, R. Br. (Wild indigo, indigo weed, horsefly weed, yellow broom, rattle bush, ..."

2. The Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius by Marcus Aurelius, Meric Casaubon (1898)
"... deale of Ceremonie, require his Foster Childs rhombus, or rattle-top, remembring neverthelesse that it is but a rhombus; so here also do thou likewise. ..."

3. The Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius by Marcus Aurelius, Meric Casaubon (1905)
"... deale of Ceremonie, require his Foster Childs rhombus, or rattle-top, remembring neverthelesse that it is but a rhombus; so here also do thou likewise. ..."

4. The Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius by Marcus Aurelius (1908)
"foster-child's rhombus, or rattle-top, remembering nevertheless that it is but a rhombus ; so here also do thou likewise. For indeed what is all this ..."

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