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.

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.