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Webster 1913 Edition

Palter

Pal′ter

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Paltered
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Paltering
.]
[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
.
Shakespeare
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

,
Verb.
T.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Palter

PAL'TER

,
Verb.
I.
[Eng. fail.] To shift; to dodge; to play tricks. Rather, to fail; to come short; to balk.
Romans,that have spoke the word
And will not palter.

PAL'TER

,
Verb.
T.
To squander. [Not used.]

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