2. To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to
equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.
Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not
palter. --Shak.
Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor
paltered with eternal God for power. --Tennyson.
3. To babble; to chatter. [Obs.]