tarry

1. (intransitive) To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.Examples: "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."; "For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry."; "But so was Face, crouched before the fire in her banana skins, and so was Mug, smoking a cigarette and saying as he flicked the ash: “Why doth the bridegroom tarry?”"Synonyms: forestall, put off, adjourn, avert, defer, delay, dilly-dally, draw outdatedintransitive

2. (intransitive) To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens.Examples: "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."Synonyms: abidedatedintransitive

3. (intransitive) To abide, stay or wait somewhere, especially if longer than planned.Examples: "[...] I have Thoughts to tarry a ſmall Matter in Town, to learn ſomewhat of your Lingo firſt, before I croſs the Seas."Synonyms: hang about, hang around, linger, loiterdatedintransitive

4. (intransitive) To stay somewhere temporarily.Examples: "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[…]."Synonyms: sojourn, stay, stay over, stop, stop over, keep, lodge, quarterdatedintransitive

5. (transitive) To wait for; to stay or stop for; to allow to linger.Examples: "Fly, fly, my lord. There is no tarrying here."; "He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding."; ""If I had heard otherwise," said the old man, looking up with a stern and menacing countenance, "you should have heard of it too." And he plodded on his way, tarrying no farther question."Synonyms: await, wait on, abide, attend, await, bide, expect, hold updatedtransitive