rustle

rustle
    n 1: a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves
         blowing in the wind [syn: {rustle}, {rustling}, {whisper},
         {whispering}]
    v 1: make a dry crackling sound; "rustling silk"; "the dry
         leaves were rustling in the breeze"
    2: take illegally; "rustle cattle" [syn: {rustle}, {lift}]
    3: forage food
    

Rustle \Rus"tle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rustled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Rustling}.] [AS. hristlan to rustle; or cf. Sw. rusta to
   stir, make a riot, or E. rush, v.]
   1. To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the
      rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves.
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            He is coming; I hear his straw rustle. --Shak.
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            Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk. --Shak.
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   2. To stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to
      bustle about. [Slang, Western U.S.]
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   3. To steal; -- used of livestock and esp. of cattle.
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   {To rustle up} To gather or find by searching; as, to rustle
      up some food for supper.
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Rustle \Rus"tle\, v. t.
   To cause to rustle; as, the wind rustles the leaves.
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Rustle \Rus"tle\, n.
   A quick succession or confusion of small sounds, like those
   made by shaking leaves or straw, by rubbing silk, or the
   like; a rustling.
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         When the noise of a torrent, the rustle of a wood, the
         song of birds, or the play of lambs, had power to fill
         the attention, and suspend all perception of the course
         of time.                                 --Idler.
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57 Moby Thesaurus words for "rustle":
      abstract, and, annex, appropriate, bag, boost, borrow, celerity,
      cop, crib, crinkle, defraud, dispatch, embezzle, expedition,
      expeditiousness, extort, filch, froufrou, hook, hurry, hustle,
      lift, make off with, nip, palm, pilfer, pinch, poach, purloin,
      run away with, rustling, scrounge, shoplift, sibilance, sibilate,
      sibilation, snare, snatch, snitch, speed, speediness, steal,
      susurrate, susurration, susurrus, swiftness, swindle, swipe, swish,
      swishing, take, thieve, walk off with, whish, whisper,
      whispering