Faltering : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Faltering	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Faltering
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
faltering adj unsteady in speech or action n the act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in his speech" Synonym(s): hesitation, waver, falter, faltering
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Faltering \Fal"tering\, a. Hesitating; trembling. [bd]With faltering* speech.[b8] --Milton. -- n. Falter; halting; hesitation. -- {Fal"teringly}, adv.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Falter \Fal"ter\, 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. With faltering speech and visage incomposed. --Milton. 2. To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady. [bd]He found his legs falter.[b8] --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.