Dally /(dăl"ly̆)/

imp. & p. p. Dallied; p. pr. & vb. n. Dallying

1. To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.

   We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer.

   We have put off God, and dallied with his grace.

2. To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.

   Not dallying with a brace of courtesans.

   Our aerie . . . dallies with the wind.

1. To delay unnecessarily; to while away.

   Dallying off the time with often skirmishes.