Tarry

Part of speech: noun (n.)

Stay; stop; delay. [Obs.] E. Lodge.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To stay or remain behind; to wait. Tarry ye for us, until we come again. Ex. xxiv. 14.

2. To delay; to put off going or coming; to loiter. Come down unto me, tarry not. Gen. xic. 9. One tarried here, there hurried one. Emerson.

3. To stay; to abide; to continue; to lodge. Tarry all night, and wash your feet. Gen. xix. 2.

Synonyms: abide; continue; lodge; await; loiter.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To delay; to defer; to put off. [Obs.] Tarry us here no longer than to-morrow. Chaucer.

2. 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.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar.