Dally
King James Dictionary [1]
DAL'LY,
1. Literally, to delay to linger to wait. Hence. 2. To trifle to lose time in idleness and trifles to amuse one's self with idle play.
It is madness to dally any longer. Calamy.
3. To toy and wanton, as man and woman to interchange caresses to fondle. 4. To sport to play.
She dallies with the wind. Shak.
DAL'LY, To delay to defer to put off to amuse till a proper opportunity as, to dally off the time.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( v. i.) To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.
(2): ( v. i.) To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.
(3): ( v. t.) To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
dal´i : Occurs in The Wisdom of Solomon 12:26: "But they that would not be reformed by that correction wherein he dallied with them" ( παιγνίοις ἐπιτιμήσεως , paignı́ois epitimḗseōs , "child play of correction"), the reference being to the earlier and lighter plagues of Egypt; Version (British and American) renders "by a mocking correction as of children," "by a correction which was as children's play," Greek (as above). He first tried them by those lighter inflictions before sending on them the heavier. In later usage "daily" implies delay .
