arch. Also 4 tariere, 4–6 tarier, 5 teryar, -iar, 6 tar(r)yer, -iar. [f. TARRY v. + -ER1.]
1. One who tarries or delays; a lingerer, procrastinator; one who stays or remains.
1382. Wyclif, Jer., Prol. God is redi to ȝyue good, to punshen a tariere.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 489/2. Teryar, or longe lytare (P. teriar or longe bidar).
1530. Palsgr., 317/2. Longe taryer.
1531. Elyot, Gov., I. xxiv. Called of them Fabius cunctator, that is to saye the tariar or delayer.
1577. Northbrooke, Dicing (1843), 95. Saint Paule admonisheth women … to be byders and tariers at home.
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 496. There be behind yet many tarryers, I will not say Traytors to the Common weale.
1665. Brathwait, Comment Two Tales (Chaucer Soc.), 29. This Chanterer was a notable Tarrier.
1845. Browning, Glove, 91. Sound the trumpet, no true knight’s a tarrier!
† 2. One who (or that which) delays some one; a hinderer, obstructor; an obstruction. Obs.
1614. B. Jonson, Barth. Fair, I. v. Why doe you stop, am I your Tarriars?
1622. J. Rawlins, Fam. Recovery Ship of Bristol, E j b. To catch the soules of mortall men, and entangle frailty in the tarriers of horrible abuses, and imposturing deceit.
