Fal″ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Faltered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Faltering.] [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.