DELAY, verb transitive 1. To prolong the time of acting, or proceeding; to put off; to defer. My lord delayeth his coming. Matthew 14:1. 2. To retard; to stop, detain or hinder for a time; to restrain motion, or render it slow; as, the mail is delated by bad roads. Thyrsis, whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. 3. To allay. DELAY, verb intransitive To linger; to move slow; or to stop for a time. There are certain bounds to the quickness and slowness of the succession of ideas, beyond which they can neither delay nor hasten. DELAY, noun 1. A lingering; stay; stop. 2. A putting off or deferring; procrastination; as, the delay of trial is not to be imputed to the plaintiff. 3. Hinderance for a time.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI