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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Stammer \Stam"mer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Stammered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stammering}.] [OE. stameren, fr. AS. stamur, stamer, stammering; akin to D. & LG. stameren to stammer, G. stammeln, OHG. stammal[?]n, stamm[?]n, Dan. stamme, Sw. stamma, Icel. stama, stamma, OHG. & Dan. stam stammering, Icel. stamr, Goth. stamms, and to G. stemmen to bear against, stumm dumb, D. stom. Cf. {Stem} to resist, {Stumble}.] To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter. I would thou couldst stammer, that thou mightest pour this conclead man out of thy mouth, as wine comes out of a narrow-mouthed bottle, either too much at once, or none at all. --Shak. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Stammering \Stam"mer*ing\, a. Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering. -- {Stam"mer*ing*ly}, adv. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Stammering \Stam"mer*ing\, n. (Physiol.) A disturbance in the formation of sounds. It is due essentially to long-continued spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm, by which expiration is preented, and hence it may be considered as a spasmodic inspiration. | |
