The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson.
Delay or procrastination. Shak.
Entertaining discourse. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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