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PALTER
Etymology
Verb
palter (third-person singular simple present palters, present participle paltering, simple past and past participle paltered)
To talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or actions.
(now rare) To trifle.
To haggle.
To babble; to chatter.
Anagrams
• Alpert, Plater, plater, replat
Source: Wiktionary
Pal"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paltered; p. pr. & vb. n. Paltering.] Etym: [See Paltry.]
1. To haggle. [Obs.] Cotgrave.
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.]
Pal"ter, v. t.
Definition: To trifle with; to waste; to squander in paltry ways or on worthless things. [Obs.] "Palter out your time in the penal statutes." Beau. & Fl.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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