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TARRY
pitchy, resinous, resiny, tarry
(adjective) having the characteristics of pitch or tar
tarry, linger
(verb) leave slowly and hesitantly
loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around
(verb) be about; “The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square”; “Who is this man that is hanging around the department?”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Tarry (plural Tarrys)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Tarry is the 23957th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1053 individuals. Tarry is most common among White (66.95%) and Black/African American (24.88%) individuals.
Etymology 1
Verb
tarry (third-person singular simple present tarries, present participle tarrying, simple past and past participle tarried)
(intransitive, dated) To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.
(intransitive, dated) To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens.
(intransitive, dated) To abide, stay or wait somewhere, especially if longer than planned.
(intransitive, dated) To stay somewhere temporarily; to sojourn.
(transitive, dated) To wait for; to stay or stop for; to allow to linger.
Synonyms
• (be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything): forestall, put off; See also procrastinate
• (linger in expectation of): abide
• (stay or wait, especially longer than planned): hang about, hang around, linger, loiter; See also tarry
• (stay somewhere temporarily): sojourn, stay, stay over, stop, stop over; See also sojourn
• (stay or stop for): await, wait on; See also wait for
Noun
tarry (plural tarries)
A sojourn.
Synonyms
• (sojourn): stay, stop, stop-over
Etymology 2
Adjective
tarry (comparative tarrier, superlative tarriest)
Resembling tar.
Covered with tar.
Synonyms
• (resembling tar): pitchy
• (covered with tar): bituminized (treated with tar), pitchy
Source: Wiktionary
Tar"ry, a. Etym: [From Tar, n.]
Definition: Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar.
Tar"ry, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tarried; p. pr. & vb. n. Tarrying.] Etym: [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.]
1. To stay or remain behind; to wait. Tarry ye for us, until we come again. Ex. xxiv. 14.
2. 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.
3. 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.
Tar"ry, v. t.
1. To delay; to defer; to put off. [Obs.] Tarry us here no longer than to-morrow. Chaucer.
2. 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.
Tar"ry, n.
Definition: Stay; stop; delay. [Obs.] E. Lodge.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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