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palter
(encz) | palter, v: |
Palter
(gcide) | Palter \Pal"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paltered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Paltering.] [See Paltry.]
1. To haggle. [Obs.] --Cotgrave.
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2. To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to
equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.
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Romans, that have spoke the word,
And will not palter. --Shak.
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Who never sold the truth to serve the hour,
Nor paltered with eternal God for power. --Tennyson.
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3. To babble; to chatter. [Obs.]
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Palter
(gcide) | Palter \Pal"ter\, v. 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.
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palter
(wn) | palter
v 1: be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or
withhold information [syn: beat around the bush,
equivocate, tergiversate, prevaricate, palter] |
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paltering
(encz) | paltering, n: |
Palter
(gcide) | Palter \Pal"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paltered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Paltering.] [See Paltry.]
1. To haggle. [Obs.] --Cotgrave.
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2. To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to
equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.
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Romans, that have spoke the word,
And will not palter. --Shak.
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Who never sold the truth to serve the hour,
Nor paltered with eternal God for power. --Tennyson.
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3. To babble; to chatter. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]Palter \Pal"ter\, v. 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.
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Paltered
(gcide) | Palter \Pal"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paltered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Paltering.] [See Paltry.]
1. To haggle. [Obs.] --Cotgrave.
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2. To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to
equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.
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Romans, that have spoke the word,
And will not palter. --Shak.
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Who never sold the truth to serve the hour,
Nor paltered with eternal God for power. --Tennyson.
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3. To babble; to chatter. [Obs.]
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Palterer
(gcide) | Palterer \Pal"ter*er\, n.
One who palters. --Johnson.
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Paltering
(gcide) | Palter \Pal"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paltered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Paltering.] [See Paltry.]
1. To haggle. [Obs.] --Cotgrave.
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2. To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to
equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.
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Romans, that have spoke the word,
And will not palter. --Shak.
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Who never sold the truth to serve the hour,
Nor paltered with eternal God for power. --Tennyson.
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3. To babble; to chatter. [Obs.]
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Palterly
(gcide) | Palterly \Pal"ter*ly\, a. & adv.
Paltry; shabby; shabbily; paltrily. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "In
palterly clothes." --Pepys.
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paltering
(wn) | paltering
n 1: a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear [syn:
fibbing, paltering] |
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