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Falter

Falter (falter)
v. t.(?)
Fal"ter
  1. To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.
    [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Falter

Falter (falter)
v. i.
Fal"ter
  1. To hesitate] to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters.

    With faltering speech and visage incomposed. Milton.

  2. To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady.
    "He found his legs falter." Wiseman.
  3. To hesitate in purpose or action.

    Ere her native king
    Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms.     Shak.

  4. To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought.

    Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters. I. Taylor.

Falter

Falter (falter)
v. t.
Fal"ter
  1. To utter with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak manner.

    And here he faltered forth his last farewell. Byron.

    Mde me most happy, faltering "I am thine." Tennyson.

Falter

Falter (falter)
n.(?)
Fal"ter
[See Falter, v. i.]
  1. Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her voice.

    The falter of an idle shepherd's pipe. Lowell.













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