DALLOP
Dal"lop, n. Etym: [Etymol. unknown.]
Defn: A tuft or clump. [Obs.] Tusser.
DALLY Dal"ly, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dallied; p. pr. & vb. n. Dallying.] Etym: [OE. , 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.
DALLY
Dal"ly, v. t.
Defn: To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
Dallying off the time with often skirmishes. Knolles.
DALMANIA
Dal*ma"ni*a, n. Etym: [From Dalman, the geologist.] (Paleon.)
Defn: A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper
Silurian and Devonian rocks.
DALMANITES
Dal`ma*ni"tes, n.