English Dictionary

tarry

/ˈtæɹ.i/

verb

(intransitive) To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything. / (intransitive) To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens.

I will not tarry any longer.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.

I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah; and even though he may tarry, nonetheless, I wait every day for his coming.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens.

And, thinking of to-morrow, when the church would rise up, singing, under the booming Sunday light, he thought of the light for which they tarried, which, in an instant, filled the soul, causing […] the new-born in Christ to testify: Once I was blind and now I see.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To abide, stay or wait somewhere, especially if longer than planned.

… I have Thoughts to tarry a ſmall Matter in Town, to learn ſomewhat of your Lingo firſt, before I croſs the Seas.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To stay somewhere temporarily.

In this by-place of nature, there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane; who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, tarried, in Sleepy Hollow[…].

意味（5）

(transitive) To wait for; to stay or stop for; to allow to linger.

Fly, fly, my lord. There is no tarrying here.