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   Falter (?), v. t. To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. [Prov. Eng.]  Halliwell.
   
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   Falter, 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”.
   
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   With faltering speech and visage incomposed. Milton.
   
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   2. To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady. “He found his legs falter.”  Wiseman.
   
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   3. To hesitate in purpose or action.
   
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   Ere her native king
   
   Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms. Shak.
   
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   4. To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought.
   
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   Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters. I. Taylor.
   
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   Falter, v. t. To utter with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak manner.
   
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   And here he faltered forth his last farewell. Byron.
   
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   Mde me most happy, faltering “I am thine.” Tennyson.
   
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   Falter (?), n. [See Falter, v. i.] Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, “a slight falter in her voice”.
   
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   The falter of an idle shepherd's pipe. Lowell.
   
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