These are the meanings of the letters TEARLET when you unscramble them.
- Elater (n.)
An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts.
- Elater (n.)
Any beetle of the family Elateridae, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of the articulation between the abdomen and thorax; -- called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle.
- Elater (n.)
One who, or that which, elates.
- Elater (n.)
The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica Elaterium) and other related species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative.
- Elater (n.)
The caudal spring used by Podura and related insects for leaping. See Collembola.
- Latter (a.)
Last; latest; final.
- Latter (a.)
Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter rain.
- Latter (a.)
Of two things, the one mentioned second.
- Latter (a.)
Recent; modern.
- Letter (n.)
A letter; an epistle.
- Letter (n.)
A mark or character used as the representative of a sound, or of an articulation of the human organs of speech; a first element of written language.
- Letter (n.)
A single type; type, collectively; a style of type.
- Letter (n.)
A writing; an inscription.
- Letter (n.)
A written or printed communication; a message expressed in intelligible characters on something adapted to conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle.
- Letter (n.)
Learning; erudition; as, a man of letters.
- Letter (n.)
One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
- Letter (n.)
One who retards or hinders.
- Letter (n.)
Verbal expression; literal statement or meaning; exact signification or requirement.
- Letter (v. t.)
To impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a book gilt and lettered.
- Rattle (n.)
A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
- Rattle (n.)
A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.
- Rattle (n.)
A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
- Rattle (n.)
An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
- Rattle (n.)
Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
- Rattle (n.)
Noisy, rapid talk.
- Rattle (n.)
The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See R/le.
- Rattle (v. i.)
To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.
- Rattle (v. i.)
To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour.
- Rattle (v. i.)
To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.
- Rattle (v. t.)
Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.
- Rattle (v. t.)
To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
- Rattle (v. t.)
To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
- Rattle (v. t.)
To scold; to rail at.
- Relate (v. i.)
To make reference; to take account.
- Relate (v. i.)
To stand in some relation; to have bearing or concern; to pertain; to refer; -- with to.
- Relate (v. t.)
To ally by connection or kindred.
- Relate (v. t.)
To bring back; to restore.
- Relate (v. t.)
To recount; to narrate; to tell over.
- Relate (v. t.)
To refer; to ascribe, as to a source.