Hypertext Webster Gateway: "falter"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Falter \Fal"ter\, v. t.
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Falter \Fal"ter\, n. [See {Falter}, v. i.]
Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken
sound; as, a slight falter in her voice.
The falter of an idle shepherd's pipe. --Lowell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Falter \Fal"ter\, v. t.
To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.
[Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Falter \Fal"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Faltered}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Faltering}.] [OE. falteren, faltren, prob. from fault.
See {Fault}, v. & n.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
falter
n : the act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in
his speech" [syn: {hesitation}, {waver}, {faltering}]
v 1: be unsure or weak; "Their enthusiasm is faltering" [syn: {waver}]
2: move hesitatingly, as if about to give way [syn: {waver}]
3: walk unsteadily [syn: {stumble}, {bumble}]
4: speak haltingly [syn: {bumble}, {stutter}, {stammer}]
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