Patter

1. n. The cant of a class; patois; as, thieves’s patter; gypsies’ patter.
2. v. i. To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet.
3. v. i. To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips.
4. v. i. To talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue.
5. v. t. To spatter; to sprinkle.
6. v. i. To mutter; as prayers.
7. n. A quick succession of slight sounds; as, the patter of rain; the patter of little feet.
8. n. Glib and rapid speech; a voluble harangue.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.