Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Dally

Dally (dal"ly) , intransitive verb

[Old English dalien, dailien; compare Icelandic pylja to talk, German dallen, dalen, dahlen, to trifle, talk nonsense, OSw. tule a droll or funny man; or Anglo-Saxon dol foolish, English dull.]

1.
To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.
We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer. — Calamy
We have put off God, and dallied with his grace. — Barrow
2.
To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.
Not dallying with a brace of courtesans. — Shakespeare
Our aerie... dallies with the wind. — Shakespeare

Dally , transitive verb

To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
Dallying off the time with often skirmishes. — Knolles