PALTER

v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To haggle. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

2.
v.

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.
v.

To babble; to chatter. [Obs.]

4.
v.

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.

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