delay

Definitions

1. 1.The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day. Macaulay.
2. 2.To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before. My lord delayeth his coming. Matt. xxiv.
3. 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.
4. 4.To allay; to temper. [Obs.] The watery showers delay the raging wind. Surrey.
5. 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.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is the government ought to be settled without the delay of a day. Macaulay called?
• What is to put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before. My lord delayeth his coming. Matt. xxiv called?
• What is to allay; to temper. [Obs.] The watery showers delay the raging wind. Surrey called?