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   Delay , n.; pl. Delays . [F. délai, fr. OF. deleer to delay, or fr. L. dilatum, which, though really from a different root, is used in Latin only as a p. p. neut. of differre to carry apart, defer, delay. See Tolerate, and cf. Differ, Delay, v.] A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.
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   Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat.
   Acts xxv. 17.
   
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   The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day.
   Macaulay.
   
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   Delay, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Delayed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Delaying.] [OF. deleer, delaier, fr. the noun délai, or directly fr. L. dilatare to enlarge, dilate, in LL., to put off. See Delay, n., and cf. Delate, 1st Defer, Dilate.]
   To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before.
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   My lord delayeth his coming.
   Matt. xxiv. 48.
   
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   To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.
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   Thyrsis! whose artful strains have oft delayed
   The huddling brook to hear his madrigal.
   Milton.
   
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   To allay; to temper. [Obs.]
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   The watery showers delay the raging wind.
   Surrey.
   
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   Delay, v. i. To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.
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   There seem to be certain bounds to the quickness and slowness of the succession of those ideas, . . . beyond which they can neither delay nor hasten.
   Locke.
   
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