(v. i.) To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.
(v. i.) To babble; to chatter.
(v. t.) To trifle with; to waste; to squander in paltry ways or on worthless things.
Example Sentences:
(1) [Weintraub, H., Palter, K., and Van Lente, F. (1975), Cell 6, 68-110] on the patterns of tryptic digest products of histones strongly suggest that in 2 M NaCl the histones exist in conformations very similar to their conformations when bound to DNA.
(2) Using histones reconstituted with RNA and DNA celluloses, we have shown elsewhere that histones elute identically with salt from single- and double-stranded DNA, but differently from RNA (Palter and Alberts, 1979).
Pelter
Definition:
(n.) One who pelts.
(n.) A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint.
Example Sentences:
(1) Smyth is going to give me pelters for this, Millings.
(2) Algeria have taken the opposite tack to South Korea's toffee pelters , the press lauding Les Verts as heroes and shuffling together a petition to persuade Vahid Halilhodzic to stay on as coach, as Rob Bleaney reports : The Algerian coach is set to leave his position after the tournament, having endured a long-running battle with some sections of the media.
(3) He's been getting pelters from the crowd, as you'd expect.
(4) I got pelters for this when I wrote it on ma blog in 2006, but I reckon football needs bigger pitches.
(5) For fans who have had pelters for acting up down the years, they're taking this with good grace.