TARRY

a. v. n.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar.

2.
v.

To stay or remain behind; to wait. Tarry ye for us, until we come again. Ex. xxiv. 14.

3.
v.

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.

4.
v.

To stay; to abide; to continue; to lodge. Tarry all night, and wash your feet. Gen. xix. 2.

5.
v.

To delay; to defer; to put off. [Obs.] Tarry us here no longer than to-morrow. Chaucer.

6.
v.

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.

7.
n.

Stay; stop; delay. [Obs.] E. Lodge.

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