v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Paltered p. pr. & vb. n. Paltering. ] [ See Paltry. ] 1. To haggle. [ Obs. ] Cotgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Romans, that have spoke the word,
And will not palter. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who never sold the truth to serve the hour,
Nor paltered with eternal God for power. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To babble; to chatter. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who palters. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & adv. Paltry; shabby; shabbily; paltrily. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] “In palterly clothes.” Pepys. [ 1913 Webster ]