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.
To utter or pronounce with hesitation or imperfectly; -- sometimes with out.
Defective utterance, or involuntary interruption of utterance; a stutter.
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