Dāl'li-ance, n.

n. [From dally, q. v.] 1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; sportiveness;—used sometimes in a bad sense, as equivalent to wantonness. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too much the rein. Shak. O, my life In Egypt! O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strife. Tennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination. [Obs.] Shak.