2. That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion. Men often swallow falsities for truths. Sir T. Brown.
Syn. — Falsehood; lie; deceit. — Falsity, Falsehood, Lie. Falsity denotes the state or quality of being false. A falsehood is a false declaration designedly made. A lie is a gross, unblushing falsehood. The falsity of a person's assertion may be proved by the evidence of others and thus the charge of falsehood be fastened upon him.
FALTER
Fal"ter, v. t.
Defn: To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.
[Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
FALTER
Fal"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Faltered; p. pr. & vb. n. Faltering.]
Etym: [OE. falteren, faltren, prob. from fault. See Fault, v. & n.]
1. To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters. With faltering speech and visage incomposed. Milton.
2. To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady. "He found his legs falter." Wiseman.
3. To hesitate in purpose or action. Ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms. Shak.
4. To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; — said of the mind or of thought. Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters. I. Taylor.
FALTER
Fal"ter, v. t.