Hypertext Webster Gateway: "faltering"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Faltering \Fal"ter*ing\, a.
Hesitating; trembling. ``With faltering speech.'' --Milton.
-- n. Falter; halting; hesitation. -- {Fal"ter*ing*ly}, adv.
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)
faltering
adj : unsteady in speech or action
n : the act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in
his speech" [syn: {hesitation}, {waver}, {falter}]
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