1862 E. McDermott Pop. Guide Internat. Exhib. 185 There is an American bar, where visitors may indulge in ‘juleps’, ‘cock-tails’, ‘cobblers’, ‘rattle-snakes’, [etc.].

1953 T. Shane Bar Guide ii. 31 Rattlesnake. 2 dashes Pernod. 1 tsp. Lemon Juice. ½ tsp. Powdered Sugar. ½ Egg White. 1 oz. Rye. Shake with cracked ice and strain.

2003 P. Martin Mammoth Bk. Cocktails iv. 256 Rattlesnake, 2oz. Bourbon, 1 dash Anisette, 1oz. Lemon Juice, ¼oz. Gomme Syrup, 1 Egg White.

1814 F. Pursh Flora Amer. Septentrionalis II. 656 Botrychium virginianum..is known by the name of Rattle Snake Fern.

1931 W. N. Clute Common Names Plants 109 The spore-cases of one of our ferns are borne in spikes that so strongly suggest the rattles of the rattlesnake that it is commonly known as the rattlesnake fern.

1993 N.Y. Times 19 Oct. c1/5 Fire has periodically been sweeping the landscape once again and legions of fire-adapted prairie plants—with names like jointed goatgrass and rattlesnake fern, ebony spleenwort and lady's tresses—have sprung up naturally in its cleansing wake.

1814 J. Bigelow Florula Bostoniensis 25 Rattlesnake grass... A large grass found in meadows and readily recognized by its swelling spikelets.

1878 J. B. Killebrew Grasses of Tennessee 232 Rattlesnake Grass..resembles quaking grass very much.

1963 H. A. Gleason & A. Cronquist Man. Vasc. Plants Northeastern U.S. 57 Glyceria canadensis... Rattlesnake grass... Swamps, bogs and wet woods.

2002 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 28 July (Neighbor section) 1 One..is known as a sensory garden... It features strongly scented geraniums, plants with unusual textures and rattlesnake grass, which makes a rattling sound when the wind blows through it.

1737 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack 3 (caption) Rattle-Snake Herb.

1763 tr. A. Le Page du Pratz Hist. Louisiana II. 43 The Rattle-snake-herb has a bulbous root like that of a tuberose, but twice as large.

1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. I. 47 The tubers of an American species [of Actæa] are considered an efficacious remedy for the wound inflicted by the bite of the rattle-snake; hence that plant is one of several which are known in America as the Rattlesnake-Herb.

1897 N. L. Britton & A. Brown Illustr. Flora Northern U.S. II. 55 Actaea rubra... This and the following species [sc. A. alba] are called also Cohosh, Herb-Christopher and Rattlesnake Herb.

1979 C. Erichsen-Brown Use of Plants for Last 500 Years 348 Red baneberry Actaea rubra..(A. spicata var. rubra)..Common names..rattlesnake herb, grapewort, snake berry.

1822 A. Eaton Man. Bot. (ed. 3) ii. 294 Goodyera..pubescens..rattle-snake leaf, scrophula-weed.

1829 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. 288 Goodyera pubescens, rattle-snake leaf.

1971 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 115 344/2 In the almanac Franklin had printed a perfect reproduction of a rattlesnake leaf for educational purposes.

1806 Farmer's Cal. sig. D4 Notwithstanding a free use of sweet oil, plantane, hoarhound, prenanthet alba, called here rattlesnake's master, &c. the swelling and pain progressed.

1835 C. J. Latrobe Rambler in N. Amer. I. 126 Everywhere among the long grass, the Liatris, or rattlesnake's-master shoots up, and displays its spike of red flowers.

1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (ed. 2) 151 E[ryngium] yuccæfolium (Rattlesnake-Master, Button Snake-root).

1943 R. Peattie Great Smokies & Blue Ridge 189 Thus a little orchid, the rattlesnake plantain, with net-veined leaves, looks enough like a snakeskin to suggest that it may be ‘rattlesnake master’ or cure for snake bites.

1998 New Scientist 11 July 16/1 The fibres used to make the woven shoes all came from the leaves of a yucca-like plant called the rattlesnake master, which still grows in the south-eastern US.

1881 P. Henderson Handbk. Plants 186/1 Rattlesnake Orchid, see Pholidota.

1948 E. T. Wherry Wild Flower Guide, Northeastern & Midland U.S. 37 Checkered Rattlesnake Orchid (Goodyera tesselata)... Lesser Rattlesnake Orchid (Goodyera ophioides).

1965 A. D. Hawkes Encycl. Cultivated Orchids 369/1 The persistent or deciduous, large, concave bracts which occur in most species—often almost hiding the blossoms—give the common name of ‘Rattlesnake Orchid’ to at least some of the cultivated Pholidotas.

1981 H. Leake & D. Leake Wild Flowers of Ozarks 31 Rattlesnake Orchid (Goodyera pubescens).

1778 J. Carver Trav. N.-Amer. xviii. 482 These [remedies] Providence has bounteously supplied, by causing the Rattle Snake Plantain, an approved antidote to the poison of this creature, to grow in great profusion where-ever they are to be met with.

1785 M. Cutler in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 476 Hieracium caule erecto multifloro [etc.]... Rattle-snake Plantain. Poor Robin's Plantain... It is said to have been considered by the Indians as an infallible cure for the bite of rattle-snakes.

1881 P. Henderson Handbk. Plants 186/1 Rattlesnake Plantain, Local name of Goodyera.

1896 N. L. Britton & A. Brown Illustr. Flora Northern U.S. I. 474 Peramium pubescens... Downy Rattlesnake Plantain... In dry woods, Newfoundland to Ontario and Minnesota.

1926 Bryologist 29 40 Here and there miniature forests of Lycopodium complanatum; and standing stiffly above them were the seed pods of the rattlesnake Plantain.

1994 Nature Conservancy May 9/2 Rattlesnake plantains, ladies' tresses and a few others have shown themselves amenable [to commercial orchid propagation], but many others stubbornly refuse.

1682 T. Amy Carolina 11 They have three sorts of the Rattle-Snake Root which I have seen.

1738 J. Tennent Epist. to Mead 5 At last I was informed..that there was a Root discovered by the Seneca Indians which was a certain Remedy against the Bite of the Rattle-snake,..and was distinguished..by the Name of Seneca Rattle-snake Root.

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 324 Rattlesnake Root, Dr. Witts, Prenanthes.

1840 J. Pereira Elements Materia Medica II. 1257 Senega or seneka root..sometimes called the seneka-snake-root, or the rattlesnake-root, is imported from the United States in bales.

1908 B. L. Robinson & M. L. Fernald Gray's New Man. Bot. (ed. 7) 871 P[renanthes] alba L. (White Lettuce, Rattlesnake-root)... Rich woods and thickets, s. Me. to the Saskatchewan.

1984 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 6 Feb. a12/6 Senega, also known as snakeroot, rattlesnake root or milkwort, has been billed as a cure-all for hundreds of years.

1651 R. Child Large Let. in S. Hartlib Legacie 78 Why may not the Silke-grasse of Virginia, the Salsaperilla, Sassafras, Rattlesnake-weed (which is an excellent Cordial) be beneficial to us.

1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Botanicum in Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ Snake-weed, Bistorta... rattle Snake-weed, Polyrrhizos Virginiana.

1754 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 4) 475/1 The eighth Sort [sc. of Eryngium] is a Native of America... It is said, that this Plant will cure the Bite of the Rattle-snake, when it is immediately applied; and from thence the Inhabitants of Virginia gave it the Title of Rattle-snake-weed.

1848 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. 248 H[ieracium] venosum, L. (Rattlesnake-weed.) Stem or scape naked..; root-leaves obovate or oblong,..marked with purple veins.

1893 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 6 Oct. 3/3 There grows a weed, called rattlesnake weed. It is so named from the story that when rattlesnakes..bite each other this weed, if eaten by them, will prevent death.

1968 R. T. Peterson & M. McKenny Field Guide Wildflowers Northeastern & North-central N. Amer. 174 Rattlesnake-weed Hieracium venosum. Note the heavy purple-red veining in the leaves... Open woods, clearings.

1983 Taxon 32 545 Every summer doilies of Rattlesnake Weed (Euphorbia albomarginata) appeared on the front terrace.

1763 J. Wheeler Botanist's & Gardener's New Dict. 382/1 Senega Rattle Snake Wort, a species of Polygala.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XV. 324/2 The senega, or seneka, rattlesnake-wort, grows naturally in most parts of North America... Besides the virtues of a purgative, emetic, and diuretic, it [sc. the root] has been recommended as an antidote against the poison of a rattlesnake; but this opinion is now exploded.

1903 A. M. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise iv. 110 He went from bar to bar drinking ‘rattlesnake cocktails’.

1930 Savoy Cocktail Bk. 132 Rattlesnake Cocktail... So called because it will either cure Rattlesnake bite, or kill Rattlesnakes, or make you see them.

1867 T. C. Baker Hist. U.S. Secret Service xix. 246 It is hardly worth the while to present to the Government a bill for a few decanters and rattlesnake whisky.

1907 Washington Post 5 Apr. 6/2 The United States army and the army mule..have gone up against rattlesnake whisky, Mexican mescal, and Apache tizwin without turning a hair.

1947 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 3 Sept. 8/5 A bottle of ‘rattlesnake whiskey’ was seized in a recent Chinatown raid by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, which offers this recipe for the concoction: Place a live rattlesnake in a large jar; add rice wine, dried toads, soy beans, sliced deer antlers and a handful of dried sea horses. Age six months.

1814 R. Southey Let. 24 Dec. (1965) II. 113 Nettling is a gentle term for what he has to undergo. In due season he shall be scorpiond and rattle-snaked.

1818 J. Keats Let. 3 Feb. (1958) I. 223 We must cut this, and not be rattlesnaked into any more of the like.

1984 Times 22 Nov. 36 General Westmoreland says, in colourful expressions, that he was ‘lynched’ and ‘rattlesnaked’ by the CBS network.

1999 NBC News Transcripts (Nexis) 17 Aug. You don't feel bad about kind of rattlesnaking these guys?

1961 M. Spark Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ii. 23 The evening paper rattle-snaked its way through the letter box.

1967 ‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp vi. 137 The bed creaked when I rattlesnaked to strike.

1981 J. Barnett Firing Squad ii. 155 Messerschmitts came in at low level, rattlesnaking along the beaches.

2004 R. Kurson Shadow Divers xiii. 302 The trunk rocked and groaned, billowing silt mushroom clouds into the compartment and causing wire to rattlesnake toward Kohler's face mask.