2. To wait for; to stay or stop for. [Archaic]

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the

grinding.

Shak.

He plodded on, . . . tarrying no further question.

Sir W. Scott.

Tar"ry, n. Stay; stop; delay. [Obs.] E. Lodge.

Tar"sal (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the tarsus (either of the

foot or eye). — n. A tarsal bone or cartilage; a tarsale.

Tarsal tetter (Med.), an eruptive disease of the edges of the eyelids;

a kind of bleareye.

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