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DELAY,

1. To prolong the time of acting, or proceeding to put off to defer.

My lord delayeth his coming. Matt. 14.

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, 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, n.

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.