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verb

Falter v. t. To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. (Prov. Eng.)

Falter v. t. To utter with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak manner. "And here he faltered forth his last farewell." "Mde me most happy, faltering "I am thine.""

Falter v. i. (past & past part. faltered; pres. part. faltering)

To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters. "With faltering speech and visage incomposed."

To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady. "He found his legs falter."

To hesitate in purpose or action. "Ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms."

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."

noun

Falter n. Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her voice. "The falter of an idle shepherd's pipe."

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"Falter" Quotes from Famous Books

... personal degradation in the mere feeling that I was thus to be repaid for a service, and recompensed for a loss. But these were not reasons I could advance; and, indeed, so for the time did Trevanion's generosity and eloquence overpower me that I could only falter out my thanks and my promise that I would ...

— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... and give him a better chance of escape. The savage passed heedlessly by it. Morgan then threw his shot pouch and coat in the way, to tempt the Indian to a momentary delay. It was equally vain,—his pursuer did not falter for an instant. He now had recourse to another expedient to save himself from captivity or death. Arriving at the summit of the hill up which he had directed his steps, he halted; and, as if some ...

— Chronicles of Border Warfare • Alexander Scott Withers

... the drab of my daily observation, radiant now; then as I watched she stretched out her arms and bent them together like a shield so that her burning face was hidden from me, and without falter or fury launched herself into the air, and dropt slowly down ...

— Lore of Proserpine • Maurice Hewlett

... replied the other, "as long as I have a prospect of large profits; why should I falter or hesitate at so slight ...

— Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and - Kabbala • Various

... their few simple belongings, stole sorrowfully away from their home. They knew not what was before them, scarcely anything of the country whither they were bound; but such was their faith in the dead woman's word, that they did not falter in their resolution to ...

— Old Mission Stories of California • Charles Franklin Carter

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