n.
One living in a dale; -- a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, etc.
n.
The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play.
n.
Delay or procrastination.
n.
Entertaining discourse.
n.
One who fondles; a trifler; as, dalliers with pleasant words.
v. i.
To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.
v. i.
To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.
v. t.
To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
n.
A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks.
a.
Of or pertaining to Dalmatia.
n.
A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia.
n.
A robe worn on state ocasions, as by English kings at their coronation.
A direction to go back to the sign / and repeat from thence to the close. See Segno.
n.
One afflicted with color blindness.