transitive. To cause (a period of time) to be extended; to waste (time) so as to cause delay. Obsolete.

transitive. To extend or prolong (time) so as to cause delay; to waste (time). Now U.S.

intransitive. To spend time idly or frivolously; to linger, loiter; to delay.

In figurative phrases: to burn daylight: to burn candles in the daytime, also to waste or consume the daylight. So †to burn seasonable weather: to…

To let slip (time, a term); to let pass without being turned to account. Obsolete.

to hinder time: to spend time, and so retard matters. Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. To waste time or work slowly; to act in a trifling manner.

Phrases. to cut to waste: lit. to cut (cloth) in a wasteful manner; figurative (? slang) to apportion (time) wastefully.