resist, Stumble.] To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to
speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter.
I would thou couldst stammer, that thou mightest pour this conclead man out of thy mouth, as wine
comes out of a narrow-mouthed bottle, either too much at once, or none at all.
Shak. Stammer
(Stam"mer) v. t. To utter or pronounce with hesitation or imperfectly; — sometimes with out.
Stammer
(Stam"mer), n. Defective utterance, or involuntary interruption of utterance; a stutter.
Stammerer
(Stam"mer*er) n. One who stammers.
Stammering
(Stam"mer*ing), a. Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering. — Stam"mer*ing*ly,
adv.
Stammering
(Stam"mer*ing), n. (Physiol.) A disturbance in the formation of sounds. It is due essentially
to long-continued spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm, by which expiration is preented, and hence it
may be considered as a spasmodic inspiration.
