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loitering


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Loiter  \Loi"ter\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Loitered};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Loitering}.]  [D.  leuteren  to  delay,  loiter;  cf  Prov.  G. 
  lottern  to  be  louse,  lotter  louse,  slack,  unsettled,  vagrant, 
  OHG.  lotar.] 
  1.  To  be  slow  in  moving  to  delay;  to  linger;  to  be  dilatory; 
  to  spend  time  idly;  to  saunter;  to  lag  behind. 
 
  Sir  John,  you  loiter  here  too  long.  --Shak. 
 
  If  we  have  loitered,  let  us  quicken  our  pace. 
  --Rogers. 
 
  2.  To  wander  as  an  idle  vagrant.  [Obs.]  --Spenser. 
 
  Syn:  To  linger;  delay;  lag;  saunter;  tarry. 




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