To wait, tarry, linger, stay, remain; often spec. to remain on horseback.

intransitive. Of a person: to stay behind, remain (after others have departed). Cf bide, v. 3. Now somewhat archaic.

To stay behind, tarry, loiter on one's way; to stay on or hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time, esp. from reluctance to leave it.

transferred and figurative. To keep hanging or lingering about (a person or place), to wait near at hand, move to and fro near or around, as if…

intransitive. To ‘hang about’, to linger or loiter about with longing or expectation. Now dialect.

figurative, chiefly of immaterial things. To remain, to be slow to pass away or disappear; to stay or persist, though tending to wane and dwindle. to…

To remain as unwilling to depart or move on; to loiter, linger, as with expectation or interest: often with the implication of parasitical…