1. To haggle. [Obs.] Cotgrave.
2. 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. To babble; to chatter. [Obs.]
PALTER
Pal"ter, v. t.
Defn: 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.
PALTERER
Pal"ter*er, n.
Defn: One who palters. Johnson.
PALTERLY
Pal"ter*ly, a. & adv.
Defn: Paltry; shabby; shabbily; paltrily. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "In palterly clothes." Pepys.
PALTOCK
Pal"tock, n. Etym: [See Paletot.]