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Of the teeth: To make a noise by rapidly repeated collision; to shiver, shake. intransitive. (Rarely said of the person.)
intransitive. Of the teeth: to chatter. Obsolete.
to lead apes in hell: the fancied consequence of dying an old maid. to say an ape's paternoster: to chatter with cold.