Definition of "tarried" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of tarry. (verb)

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• "Why then, when I awoke, was the word that tarried in my mind Lambaneish?"
• "The bridegroom tarried, that is, he did not come out so soon as they expected."
• "[Footnote: Wight: a person.] of the name of Ichabod Crane; who sojourned, or as he expressed it, "tarried," in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity."