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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

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

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.

Shakespeare

If we have

loitered

, let us quicken our pace.

Rogers.

Syn. – To linger; delay; lag; saunter; tarry.

, v.i.

To linger; to be slow in moving; to delay; to be dilatory; to spend time idly.

If we have loitered, let us quicken our pace.