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deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat. Acts xxv. 17. The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day. Macaulay.

One who delays; one who lingers.

By delays. [R.] Tennyson.

Hindrance. [Obs.] Gower.

See Rondeau, and Rondel.

To wait; to pause; to delay. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Act of waiting; delay. [Obs.] Shak. And with her fled away without abode. Spenser.

To wait; to stay; to delay. [Obs.] For this perfection she must yet attend, Till to her Maker she espoused be. Sir J. Davies.

On; in continuance; without intermission or delay; as, sing away. [Colloq.]

Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night; benighted. "Some belated peasant." Milton. -- Be*lat"ed*ness, n. Milton.

A stop; a halting; delay. [Obs.]

Stop; pause; delay. You shake the head at so long a breathing. Shak.

tive and adversative force of the Greek But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; . . . the lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him. Luke xii. 45, 46. But if, unless. [Obs.] Chaucer. But this I read, that but if remedy Thou her afford, full shortly I her dead sha…

A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check. Which gave a remarkable check to the first progress of Christianity. Addison. No check, no stay, this streamlet fears. Wordsworth.

ift. Circumlocution office, a term of riducle for a governmental office where business is delayed by passing through the hands of different officials.

To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came off very fine. (h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to separate. (i) To hurry away; to get through. Chaucer. -- To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the worst." Calamy. -- To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave disquisiti…

To delay. Bailey.

Delay; procrastination. [R.] Carlyle.

Slow; tardy; dilatory; causing delay.

One who delays or lingers. [R.]