Crossword clues for tarry
tarry
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tarry \Tar"ry\, a. [From Tar, n.] Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar.
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.]
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To stay or remain behind; to wait.
Tarry ye for us, until we come again.
--Ex. xxiv. 14. -
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.
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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.
Tarry \Tar"ry\, v. t.
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To delay; to defer; to put off. [Obs.]
Tarry us here no longer than to-morrow.
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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.
Tarry \Tar"ry\, n.
Stay; stop; delay. [Obs.]
--E. Lodge.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "to delay, retard" (transitive), of uncertain origin. Some suggest a connection to Latin tardare "to delay," or Old English tergan, tirgan "to vex, irritate, exasperate, provoke," which yielded a Middle English verb identical in form to this one. Intransitive meaning "to linger" is attested from late 14c. Related: Tarried; tarrying; tarrysome.
1550s, from tar (n.1) + -y (2). Tarry-fingered "dishonest, thieving" is from 1825.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A sojourn. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything. 2 (context intransitive English) To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens. 3 (context intransitive English) To abide, stay or wait somewhere, especially if longer than planned. 4 (context intransitive English) To stay somewhere temporarily; to sojourn. 5 (context transitive English) To wait for; to stay or stop for; to allow to linger. Etymology 2
1 Resembling tar. 2 Covered with tar.
WordNet
adj. having the characteristics of pitch or tar [syn: pitchy, resinous, resiny]
v. 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, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around]
leave slowly and hesitantly [syn: linger]
[also: tarried]
Usage examples of "tarry".
Sunne is in their Zinith every moneth, and doth tarry their so long before hee leaves it?
Whereupon I went to Fotis, to aske counsell of her as of some Divine, who although she was unwilling that I should depart one foot from her company, yet at length shee gave me license to bee absent for a while, saying , Beware that you tarry not long at supper there, for there is a rabblement of common Barrettors and disturbers of the publique peace, that rove about in the streets and murther all such as they may take, neither can law nor justice redress them in any case.
Mongols would not have tarried on Long Lake, nor camped amid the morasses of the muskeg ponds.
Let privily her council go their way: Why should I in this tale longer tarry?
So tarry not by a Sinckinge Schippe, but do as I saye lest all bee loste.
But in whichever place they were, and under whatever circumstances, they were all tarrying in expectation of the advent of the Messiah.
The Buddhists await the birth of Maitri Buddha, who is tarrying in the dewa loka Tusita until the time of his advent upon earth.
That is to say, he is tarrying in heaven for the appointed time to arrive when he shall come into the world again to consummate the full and final purposes of his mission.
The foregoing statement, therefore, implies that Christ and his angels would be tarrying on the earth when the final woe of the condemned was inflicted.
It also appears, in the next place, from numerous explicit passages, that the New Testament authors, in common with their countrymen, supposed the souls of the departed to be gathered and tarrying in what the Church calls the intermediate state, the obscure under world.
That is to say, all who have died, except Christ, are still tarrying in the great receptacle of souls under the earth.
After tarrying a season there, they were either born again upon the earth, or transported to the divine realm of the sun.
It burned bright in her soft, grave eyes, this longing for the larger freedom of the tarrying morrow.
Then would I that these fowles were away, Each with his mate, for longer tarrying here.
Saluting Pandarus, and not tarrying, his passage will give occasion for some talk of him, which may make his ears glow.