Verb (used without object) : They prated on until I was ready to scream. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to prate absurdities with the greatest seriousness. From Dictionary.com.
This young woman might talk politics, thought her new friend; no male man would call her prater, while she bore herself with that air. From Wordnik.com. [The Testing of Diana Mallory] Reference
Bentley having spoken thus, Scaliger, bestowing him a sour look, “Miscreant prater!” said he. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle of the Books] Reference
Where the nice apple prater is boii'd in his jacket. From Wordnik.com. [The pin-basket to the children of Thespis. With notes historical, critical, and biographical] Reference
"Peace, prater," cried a stern voice in the doorway. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Arden] Reference
Cocksbod, said the steward, we have met with a prater. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1] Reference
You would be of little account if you weren't a prater. From Wordnik.com. [Dona Perfecta] Reference
What! a speaker is but a prater; a rime is but a ballad. From Wordnik.com. [Act V. Scene II. The Life of King Henry the Fifth] Reference
What! a speaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of King Henry V] Reference
But what? should a doctor be a dictator? or a proctor a prater?. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
Will he not be called by them a prater, a star-gazer, a good-for-nothing?. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophers' Playground] Reference
The dear prater went on -- My guardian called me aside, when tea was over. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7)] Reference
(Compare Pr 6: 14; 10: 31). whisperer -- prater, talebearer (Pr 18: 8; 26: 20). From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Plea, judgment on bond againft admi - niftratrix, C5 plene admintftravit prater. From Wordnik.com. [A collection of modern entries; or, Select pleadings in the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer..] Reference
Northern Tide: with all of the coaching changes do we have any chance with prater?. From Wordnik.com. [Local News from Tuscaloosa News] Reference
Until there's an instructional podcast for prairie dog prater, we'll just have to wonder. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Nor is it at all necessary for thee to be a prater, for others better than thou are present. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference
How wholly we all lie at the mercy of a single prater, not needfully with any malign purpose!. From Wordnik.com. [The Pocket R.L.S., being favourite passages from the works of Stevenson] Reference
48 Beneficia conferre non poflimt Laici ', cap. re contigerit, atiqais prater Romamm Pontifi'. From Wordnik.com. [Adm. rev. p. F. Lucii Ferraris ... Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica ...] Reference
D — n the prater; grinning rascal!. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Speak, I beseech you, that their worships may not take me for some lying prater. ". From Wordnik.com. [Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote] Reference
"Y 'are a prater, Bennet, a talker, a babbler; your mouth is wider than your two ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Arrow] Reference
This woman is a prater. From Wordnik.com. [THE BORDERERS A Tragedy] Reference
An everlasting prater, 346. From Wordnik.com. [Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)] Reference
FOOLISH prater, what dost thou. From Wordnik.com. [Anacreontics 3. The Swallow] Reference
"Go to, thou prater!" interrupted a companion. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
A prater, a droSer. From Wordnik.com. [Archaeologia Britannica,: Giving Some Account Additional to what Has Been ...] Reference
A speaker is but a prater, a Ryme is. From Wordnik.com. [Henry V (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference
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