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quivocate; 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.

One who palters. Johnson.

Paltry; shabby; shabbily; paltrily. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "In palterly clothes." Pepys.

The Book of Psalms; -- often applied to a book containing the Psalms separately printed.

Of or pertaining to the psalterium.

The third stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies.

rews, the form of which is not known. Praise the Lord with harp; sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. Ps. xxxiii. 2.

One of the rudimentary front wings of certain insects (Stylops). They resemble the halteres, or rudimentary hind wings, of Diptera.

One who makes, sells, or applies salt; one who salts meat or fish.

A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.

Sesquialteral.

A stop on the organ, containing several ranks of pipes which reënforce some of the high harmonics of the ground tone, and make the sound more brilliant.

ce and a half times as great as another; having the ratio of one and a half to one. Sesquialteral ratio (Math.), the ratio of one and a half to one; thus, 9 and 6 are in a sequialteral ratio.

Sesquialteral.

ecifically (Mil.), ranking as a junior officer; being below the rank of captain; as, a subaltern officer.

A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2. Whately.

Subordinate; subaltern; inferior. All their subalternate and several kinds. Evelyn.

Subalternate; successive.

The state of being subalternate; succession of turns; subordination.

One who moves or wears a halter; one likely to be hanged. [Colloq. & Obs.] I can tell you, I am a mad wag-halter. Marston.