Dally

v. i. [imp. & p. p. DALLIED (dāl'lid); p. pr. & vb. n. DALLYING.] [Ger. dallen, dalen, dahlen, to dally, to trifle, to talk nonsense, Icel. thylla, to talk, O. Sw. tule, a droll or funny man, A.-S. dol, foolish.] 1. To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness and trifles; to linger; to delay. We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer. Calamy. 2. To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling or wantonness; to sport. Not dallying with a brace of courtesans. Shak. She . . . dallies with the wind, and scorns the sun. Shak.

To delay; to defer; to put off; to amuse. [Rare.]

Dallying off the time with often skirmishes. Knolles.