2. To throw out words. [Obs.]

Another smothered seems to peltand swear.

Shak.

Pelt, n. A blow or stroke from something thrown.

||Pel"ta (?), n.; pl. PeltÊ. [L., a shield, fr. Gr. &?;.] 1. (Antiq.) A

||small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptic form, or

||crescent-shaped.