Crossword clues for tarried
The Collaborative International 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.]
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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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-pasttarry)
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]
See tarry
Usage examples of "tarried".
The greatest host came last, and they are named the Teleri, for they tarried on the road, and were not wholly of a mind to pass from the dusk to the light of Valinor.
For the spirit of Beren at her bidding tarried in the halls of Mandos, unwilling to leave the world, until L?
And now he was not far behind them, for he went without sleeping, whereas they had tarried on their road, hunting in the lands and fearing no pursuit as they came northward.
Bilbo's song at Rivendell: 'Eärendil was a mariner that tarried in Arvernien…' (The Fellowship of the Ring II 1).
They trooped after us, and never more while we tarried in Fayal did we get rid of them.
The evening we sailed away from Gibraltar, that hard-featured rock was swimming in a creamy mist so rich, so soft, so enchantingly vague and dreamy, that even the Oracle, that serene, that inspired, that overpowering humbug, scorned the dinner gong and tarried to worship!
They tarried not to bid their fathers and mothers good-bye, or any friend they knew.
As descendants of old English nobles still cherish in the traditions of their houses how that this king or that king tarried a day with some favored ancestor three hundred years ago, no doubt the descendants of the woman of Samaria, living there in Shechem, still refer with pardonable vanity to this conversation of their ancestor, held some little time gone by, with the Messiah of the Christians.
Sir, said the Prince Boudwin, it was so that an I had tarried till that I had sent for you those miscreants had destroyed my country.
But when he had done these deeds he tarried not but so departed, and therefore he lost his prize.
Alas, said the king, help me hence, for I dread me I have tarried over long.
And then that queen said: Ah, dear brother, why have ye tarried so long from me?