Word Direct Answers

What does "tarry" mean?

Tarry: To stay or remain behind; to wait. Tarry ye for us, until we come again. Ex. xxiv.

Additional senses

  1. 2.2. To delay; to put off going or coming; to loiter. Come down unto me, tarry not. Gen. xic.
  2. 3.One tarried here, there hurried one. Emerson.
  3. 4.To stay; to abide; to continue; to lodge. Tarry all night, and wash your feet. Gen. xix.
  4. 5.To delay; to defer; to put off. [Obs.] Tarry us here no longer than to-morrow. Chaucer.
  5. 6.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.
  6. 7.Stay; stop; delay. [Obs.] E. Lodge.

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