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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Dal·ly v. i.  [imp. & p. p. Dallied p. pr. & vb. n. Dallying.]
 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.