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Webster 1913 Edition
Dalliance
1.
The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play.
Look thou be true, do not give
Too much the rein.
dalliance
Too much the rein.
Shakespeare
O, the
The flattery and the strife!
dalliance
and the wit,The flattery and the strife!
Tennyson.
2.
Delay or procrastination.
Shak.
3.
Entertaining discourse.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dalliance
DAL'LIANCE
,Noun.
1.
Literally, delay; a lingering; appropriately, acts of fondness; interchange of caresses; toying, as males and females; as youthful dalliance.2.
Conjugal embraces; commerce of the sexes.3.
Delay.