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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Palter \Pal"ter\, verb (used without an object) [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.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Palter \Pal"ter\, verb (used with an object) 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
palter
verb: be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information [syn: {beat around the bush}, {equivocate}, {tergiversate}, {prevaricate}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "palter": around the bush, back and fill, bargain, beat about, beg the question, bicker, boggle, cavil, chaffer, choplogic, dicker, dodge, duck, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, falsify, fence, fib, hedge, hem and haw, higgle, huckster, hum and haw, lie, mince the truth, mince words, mystify, nitpick, obscure, parry, pick nits, prevaricate, pussyfoot, quibble, shift, shuffle, shy, sidestep, split hairs, tergiversate, waffle, weasel
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