Defn: To utter with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak
manner.
And here he faltered forth his last farewell. Byron.
Mde me most happy, faltering "I am thine." Tennyson.
FALTER
Fal"ter, n. Etym: [See Falter, v. i.]
Defn: Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her voice. The falter of an idle shepherd's pipe. Lowell.
FALTERING
Fal"ter*ing, a.
Defn: Hesitating; trembling. "With faltering speech." Milton.
— n.
Defn: Falter; halting; hesitation.
— Fal"ter*ing*ly, adv.
FALUNS
Fa`luns", n. Etym: [F.] (Geol.)
Defn: A series of strata, of the Middle Tertiary period, of France, abounding in shells, and used by Lyell as the type of his Miocene subdivision.
FALWE
Fal"we, a. & n.
Defn: Fallow. [Obs.] Chaucer.