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Latered :: Latered (a.) Inclined to delay; dilatory.

Late :: Late (v.) Coming after the time when due, or after the usual or proper time; not early; slow; tardy; long delayed; as, a late spring..

Immediately :: Immediately (adv.) Without interval of time; without delay; promptly; instantly; at once.

Overdue :: Overdue (a.) Due and more than due; delayed beyond the proper time of arrival or payment, etc.; as, an overdue vessel; an overdue note..

Delay :: Delay (n.) To allay; to temper.

Sist :: Sist (v. t.) To stay, as judicial proceedings; to delay or suspend; to stop..

Belated :: Belated (a.) Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night; benighted.

Directly :: Directly (adv.) Straightway; next in order; without delay; immediately.

Stave :: Stave (n.) To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project..

Relay :: Relay (n.) A supply of horses placced at stations to be in readiness to relieve others, so that a trveler may proceed without delay..

Roundelay :: Roundelay (n.) A tune in which a simple strain is often repeated; a simple rural strain which is short and lively.

Reprieve :: Reprieve (v. t.) To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days..

Bode :: Bode (n.) A stop; a halting; delay.

Delay :: Delay (n.) To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow..

Respite :: Respite (n.) The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.

Retardation :: Retardation (n.) The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to acceleration..

Roundelay :: Roundelay (n.) Anything having a round form; a roundel.

Dwell :: Dwell (v. i.) To delay; to linger.

Protractive :: Protractive (a.) Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying.

Delay :: Delay (v.) A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.

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