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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Falter \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.
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              With faltering speech and visage incomposed.
                                                    --Milton.
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     2. To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady. "He found his legs
        falter." --Wiseman.
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     3. To hesitate in purpose or action.
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              Ere her native king
              Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms. --Shak.
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     4. To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said
        of the mind or of thought.
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              Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space
              and distance falters.                 --I. Taylor.
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