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falter

v. இடறு, தடுமாறு, தள்ளாடி நட, நடுக்கம் கொள், கொன்னு, திக்கிப்பேசு, தடுமாற்றத்துடன் பேசு, துணிவிழ, தயங்கு, பின்வாங்கு, ஆஞ்சிநில்.


Fal"ter, v. t. Defn: To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Fal"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Faltered; p. pr. & vb. n. Faltering.] Etym: [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. Fal"ter, v. t. Defn: 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. Fal"ter, n. Etym: [See Falter, v. i.] Defn: Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her voice. The falter of an idle shepherd's pipe. Lowell.


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