1. (v. i.) To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.

2. (v. i.) To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.

3. (v. t.) To delay unnecessarily; to while away.

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