Falter

Definition of Falter

Fal´ter

v. t.	1.	To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.
v. i.	1.	To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters. [imp. & p. p. Faltered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Faltering.] With faltering speech and visage incomposed. - Milton.
	2.	To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady.
	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.
v. t.	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.
n.	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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