Pal"ter (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paltered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Paltering.] [See Paltry.]
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.]
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Pal"ter, v. t.
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.
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