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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.

One who stammers.

Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering. -- Stam"mer*ing*ly, adv.

unciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.

at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal to one another." [Sportive] "A schoolboy, stammering out his Asses' Bridge." F. Harrison. -- To make an ass of one's self, to do or say something very foolish or absurd.

To stammer. [Obs.]

The defect of stammering; also, a kind of incomplete pronunciation.

erated by them; nor begin, in my grand climacteric, to squall in their new accents, or to stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds of their barbarous metaphysics. Burke.

us he, though conscious of the ethereal guest, Answered evasive of the sly request. Pope. Stammered out a few evasive phrases. Macaulay. -- E*va"sive*ly , adv. -- E*va"sive*ness, n.

To stammer. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters. With faltering speech and visage incomposed. Milton.

To stammer. [Obs.] Nares.

To stammer; to speak unintelligibly; to prevaricate. [Prov.Eng.] Halliwell.

A stammering; a faltering in speech.

To stammer; to falter in speaking.

A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift.

A term employed to describe one of the varieties of stammering. Tylor.

ing in some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity. He . . . stammered like a child, or an amazed, imperfect person. Jer. Taylor.

To stammer. [Obs.]

A stammerer. [Obs.]