Stammer

Stammer - Other Definitions

• (v. i.) To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter.
  
  
• (v. t.) To utter or pronounce with hesitation or imperfectly; -- sometimes with out.
  
  
• (n.) Defective utterance, or involuntary interruption of utterance; a stutter.
  
  
• (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stammer
  
  
• (a.) Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering.
  
  
• (n.) 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.