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.