Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To delay or be late in going, coming, or doing. See Synonyms at stay1.
- v. To wait.
- v. To remain or stay temporarily, as in a place; sojourn.
- v. Archaic To wait for; await.
- n. A temporary stay; a sojourn.
- adj. Of, resembling, or covered with tar.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Consisting of tar, or like tar; partaking of the character of tar; smeared with tar.
- To vex; irritate; provoke; incite. See tar.
- To continue in a place; remain; stay; sojourn; abide; lodge.
- To wait or stay in expectation; wait.
- To put off going or coming; delay; linger; loiter.
- To cause to tarry; delay.
- To wait for.
- n. Delay: stay.
Wiktionary
- v. To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.
- v. To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens.
- v. To abide, stay or wait somewhere, especially if longer than planned.
- v. To stay somewhere temporarily; to sojourn.
- n. A sojourn.
- adj. Resembling tar.
- adj. Covered with tar.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar.
- v. To stay or remain behind; to wait.
- v. To delay; to put off going or coming; to loiter.
- v. To stay; to abide; to continue; to lodge.
- v. To delay; to defer; to put off.
- v. To wait for; to stay or stop for.
- n. Stay; stop; delay.
WordNet 3.0
- v. be about
- v. leave slowly and hesitantly
- adj. having the characteristics of pitch or tar
Etymologies
- Middle English tarien.
Examples
“By secondary reactions they may yield some furfural, but as they are highly reactive compounds, and most readily condensed, they are for the most part converted into complex 'tarry' products.”
“This work of organization was fitly entrusted to St. John, who for so many years was left upon earth to "tarry" for the Lord, on Whose Breast he had leaned, and Whose teaching had filled his soul with adoring love, and with those depths of spiritual knowledge which are stored up for us in the "Theological Gospel.”
“He should "tarry" (shebh, imperative from yashabh; here not in the sense of "dwell" but "tarry") just long enough to carry out the injunction laid upon him.”
“He admonished them to "tarry" until an enduement came to them.”
“At the word "tarry" Olga could not refrain from tears.”
“The expression is not, "Give a share to one another," for all the viands brought to the feast were common property, and, therefore, they should "tarry" till all were met to partake together of the common feast of fellowship”
“Christ's charge to John to 'tarry' did not only, as his brethren misinterpreted it, mean that his life was to be continued, but it prescribed the manner of his life.”
“But this is the reason why the Lord told his disciples to go back to Jerusalem and to "tarry" there.”
“Perhaps it involves a courteous protest like, "please don't talk about leaving," or else the conclusion might run, "tarry" (A.”
“Lord, I'm going to set aside some time today to 'tarry' in seeking an assurance of the Holy”
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