Category:Palter

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.]

Palter Pal"ter, v. t.

Defn: 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.