intransitive. To be slow to do something. Obsolete.

intransitive. To delay or be tardy in beginning or doing anything, esp. in coming or going; to wait before doing something; to linger, loiter.

To be tardy in doing or beginning anything; to hesitate, delay; to dawdle. †Const. infinitive.

intransitive. To defer action, delay; to be dilatory.

To neglect, to be backward or dilatory, to do something. Now rare.

intransitive. To be slow or dilatory. Obsolete.

intransitive. To resist advance by one's weight or inertia; figurative to show unwillingness to advance or come forward; to be backward.

to hang an (also the) arse: to hold back; to be reluctant or dilatory. rare after 18th cent.

to hang fire: (of a firearm) to be slow in communicating the fire through the vent to the charge; (hence) figurative to hesitate or be slow in acting.

Chiefly Sport (originally Athletics). figurative. to get (also be) off the (also one's) mark: to start, get going. to be slow off the mark: to start…