[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

prate \prate\, v. i. imp.  p. p. prated; p. pr.  vb. n.
   prating. akin to lg.  d. praten, dan. prate, sw.  icel.
   prata.
   to talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to
   speak foolishly; to babble.
   1913 webster

         to prate and talk for life and honor.    --shak.
   1913 webster

         and make a fool presume to prate of love. --dryden.
   1913 webster
see also:
prated prating 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

prate \prate\, v. t.
   to utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to
   chatter, or babble.
   1913 webster

         what nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate,
         when thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate 
                                                  --dryden.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

prate \prate\, n. akin to lg.  d. praat, sw. prat.
   talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.
   1913 webster

         sick of tops, and poetry, and prate.     --pope.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

prate
     n : idle or foolish and irrelevant talk syn: prattle, idle
         talk, blether, chin music
     v : speak about unimportant matters rapidly and incessantly
         syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, tittle-tattle, twaddle,
          clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle,
          blabber, gabble
see also:
prattle idle talk blether chin music chatter piffle 
palaver tittle-tattle twaddle clack maunder 
blab gibber tattle blabber gabble 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

110 moby thesaurus words for "prate":
   absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bavardage,
   bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blather, blether,
   blethers, blow, bombast, brag, bull, bullshit, cackle, caquet,
   caqueterie, chat, chatter, chitter-chatter, clack, claptrap,
   clatter, cock-a-doodle-doo, crow, dither, double-talk, drivel,
   drool, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol, fudge,
   fustian, gab, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gas, gasconade, gibber,
   gibberish, gibble-gabble, go on, gobbledygook, gossip, guff, gush,
   haver, hocus-pocus, hot air, humbug, idle talk, jabber, jargon,
   jaw, mere talk, mouth, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, natter, niaiserie,
   nonsense, nonsense talk, pack of nonsense, palaver, patter, piffle,
   pour forth, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, puff, ramble on,
   rant, rattle, rattle on, reel off, rigamarole, rigmarole,
   rodomontade, rubbish, run on, skimble-skamble, spout, spout off,
   stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, talk away, talk nonsense,
   talk on, talkee-talkee, tittle-tattle, trash, trumpery, twaddle,
   twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vapor, vaporing, vaunt, waffle, waffling,
   yak, yakkety-yak

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