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Dal"li*er (?), n. One who fondles; a trifler; as, dalliers with pleasant words. Asham.
Dal"lop (dl"lp), n. [Etymol. unknown.] A tuft or clump. [Obs.] Tusser.
Dal"ly (-l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dallied (-ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Dallying.] [OE. dalien, dailien; cf. Icel. pylja to talk, G. dallen, dalen, dahlen, to trifle, talk nonsense, OSw. tule a droll or funny man; or AS. dol foolish, E. dull.] 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.
Calamy.
We have put off God, and dallied with his grace.
Barrow.
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.
Shak.
Our aerie . . . dallies with the wind.
Shak.
Dal"ly, v. t. To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
Dallying off the time with often skirmishes.
Knolles.
||Dal*ma"ni*a (?), n. [From Dalman, the geologist.] (Paleon.) A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks.
||Dal`ma*ni"tes (?), n. Same as Dalmania.
Dal*ma"tian (?), a. Of or pertaining to Dalmatia.
Dalmatian dog (Zoöl.), a carriage dog, shaped like a pointer, and having black or bluish spots on a white ground; the coach dog.
Dal*mat"i*ca (?), n., Dal*mat"ic (&?;), n. [LL. dalmatica: cf. F. dalmatique.] 1. (R. C. Ch.) 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.