What does "delay" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before. My lord delayeth his coming. Matt. xxiv.
2. 3.2. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow. Thyrsis! whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. Milton.
3. 4.To allay; to temper. [Obs.] The watery showers delay the raging wind. Surrey.
4. 5.To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry. There seem to be certain bounds to the quickness and slowness of the succession of those ideas, . . . beyond which they can neither delay nor hasten. Locke.