Palter, to shift, to dodge, to shuffle, to equivocate: “a whoreson dog, that shall p. thus with us,” Troil. II, 3, 244. “you p.” V, 2, 48. “this --ing becomes not Rome,” Cor. III, 1, 58. “Romans that have spoke the word and will not p.” Caes. II, 1, 126. “these juggling fiends, that p. with us in a double sense,” Mcb. V, 8, 20. “I must dodge and p. in the shifts of lowness,” Ant. III, 11, 63.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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