Fal·ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Faltered p. pr. & vb. n. Faltering.]
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.”
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.