verb

• (intransitive) To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.
  "I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah; and even though he may tarry, nonetheless, I wait every day for his coming."
• (intransitive) To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens.
  "And, thinking of to-morrow, when the church would rise up, singing, under the booming Sunday light, he thought of the light for which they tarried, which, in an instant, filled the soul, causing […] the new-born in Christ to testify: Once I was blind and now I see."
• (intransitive) To abide, stay or wait somewhere, especially if longer than planned.
  "[...] I have Thoughts to tarry a ſmall Matter in Town, to learn ſomewhat of your Lingo firſt, before I croſs the Seas."
• (intransitive) To stay somewhere temporarily.
  "In this by-place of nature, there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane; who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, "tarried," in Sleepy Hollow[…]."