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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TAR'RY, v.i. [L. taurus, a bull.]
1. To stay; to abide; to continue; to lodge.
Tarry all night and wash your feet. Genesis 19.
2. To stay behind. Exodus 12.
3. To stay in expectation; to wait.
Tarry ye here for us, till we come again to you. Exodus 24.
4. To delay; to put off going or coming; to defer.
Come down to me, tarry not. Genesis 45.
5. To remain; to stay.
He that telleth lies, shall not tarry in my sight. Psalms 101.
TAR'RY, v.t. To wait for.
I cannot tarry dinner. [Not in use.]
T`ARRY, a. [from tar.] Consisting of tar, or like tar.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having the characteristics of pitch or tar [syn: pitchy, resinous, resiny, tarry] v
1: be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?" [syn: loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around]
2: leave slowly and hesitantly [syn: tarry, linger]

Merriam Webster's

I. intransitive verb (tarried; tarrying) Etymology: Middle English tarien Date: 14th century 1. a. to delay or be tardy in acting or doing b. to linger in expectation ; wait 2. to abide or stay in or at a place II. noun (plural tarries) Date: 14th century stay, sojourn III. adjective Date: 1552 of, resembling, or covered with tar

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. adj. (tarrier, tarriest) of or like or smeared with tar. Derivatives: tarriness n. 2. v.intr. (-ies, -ied) archaic or literary 1 defer coming or going. 2 linger, stay, wait. 3 be tardy. Derivatives: tarrier n. Etymology: ME: orig. uncert.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tarry Tar"ry, v. t. 1. To delay; to defer; to put off. [Obs.] Tarry us here no longer than to-morrow. --Chaucer. 2. To wait for; to stay or stop for. [Archaic] He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding. --Shak. He plodded on, . . . tarrying no further question. --Sir W. Scott.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tarry Tar"ry, n. Stay; stop; delay. [Obs.] --E. Lodge.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tarry Tar"ry, a. [From Tar, n.] Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tarry Tar"ry, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tarried; p. pr. & vb. n. Tarrying.] [OE. tarien to irritate (see Tarre); but with a change of sense probably due to confusion with OE. targen to delay, OF. targier, fr. (assumed) LL. tardicare, fr. L. tardare to make slow, to tarry, fr. tardus slow. Cf. Tardy.] 1. To stay or remain behind; to wait. Tarry ye for us, until we come again. --Ex. xxiv. 14. 2. To delay; to put off going or coming; to loiter. Come down unto me, tarry not. --Gen. xic. 9. One tarried here, there hurried one. --Emerson. 3. To stay; to abide; to continue; to lodge. Tarry all night, and wash your feet. --Gen. xix. 2. Syn: To abide; continue; lodge; await; loiter.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(tarrying, tarried) 1. If you tarry somewhere, you stay there longer than you meant to and delay leaving. (OLD-FASHIONED) Two old boys tarried on the street corner discussing cattle. = linger VERB: V 2. If you describe something as tarry, you mean that it has a lot of tar in it or is like tar. I smelled tarry melted asphalt. ...cups of tarry coffee. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. n. 1. Wait, linger, delay, loiter, remain, stay, stop. 2. Delay, put off, defer. 3. Stay, sojourn, abide (temporarily), lodge, rest, take up one's quarters, pitch one's tent, have lodgings, take lodgings, continue, stop, halt.

Moby Thesaurus

abide, await, be still, bide, bide the issue, carry on, cease not, coast, continue, continue to be, crawl, creep, dally, dawdle, defeat time, defy time, delay, dillydally, drag, drag along, drag on, dwell, endure, exist, extend, falter, flag, freeze, go along, go on, goof off, halt, hang about, hang around, hang back, hold, hold everything, hold on, hold out, hold steady, hold your horses, jog on, keep, keep going, keep on, keep quiet, lag, last, last long, last out, lie still, linger, linger on, live, live on, live through, loiter, lollygag, maintain, mark time, never cease, not breathe, not stir, pause, perdure, perennate, persist, poke, prevail, procrastinate, put off, remain, remain motionless, repose, rest, run, run on, settle, shilly-shally, sit tight, sit up, slog on, sojourn, stagger on, stall, stand, stand fast, stand firm, stand still, stay, stay on, stay put, stay up, stick, stick around, stick fast, stop, stop over, subsist, survive, sustain, take time, temporize, tide over, trail, tread water, wait, wait a minute, wait and see, waste time, wear, wear on, wear well