▪ I. † tary, n. Obs.
Also 6 tarie, -ye.
[f. tary v.]
Vexation, trouble, annoyance.
| 1528 Lyndesay Dreme 277 For to rehers thare lyffis vitious, It wer bot tarye to the auditouris. 1533 Gau Richt Vay (S.T.S.) 66 We haiff mekil tarie of it [our body] heir in ye wardil. c 1576 Maitland Poems (1830) 40 And tak ane wyf to bring him selffe in tarye, For fresche Maii and cauld Januarij Agreeis nocht upon ane sang in tune. |
▪ II. † ˈtary, v. Obs.
Forms: 4–5 tarien, 5 teryyn, (tarry), 5–6 tarie, -ye, (tarrie), tary.
[ME. tery-yn, tari-en appears to represent in form and sense both OE. tęrᵹan, *tærᵹ(e)an, tyrian, *tęrian, to provoke, and OF. tarier to provoke, excite, in F. dial. to vex, irritate, torment, tease (of doubtful origin). In so far as tary was of OE. origin, it was a doublet of tar v.2 See Note.]
1. trans. To provoke, vex, worry, harass.
| a 1300 E.E. Psalter cv[i]. 8[7] Þai taried [irritaverunt] vpsteȝ and in se, Rede se. a 1325 Prose Psalter ibid., Tariden. 13.. Cursor M. 28153, I womman haue vn-buxum bene And tarid myn husband to tene. 1340 Hampole Pr. Consc. 1189 Þa þat wille him folow, he..scornes and taries in his nedes. 1387 Trevisa tr. Higden (MS. c 1410) V. 355 (Rolls), Þe kynges..sone..gan to tarry [v.r. terre; orig. lacessivit] and to angre þe Longobardes wiþ despitous wordes. c 1400 Destr. Troy 7287 He was tarriet with the Troiens, & tenit full euyll. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 489/2 Teryyn, or ertyn. [Ertyn, irrito.] c 1440 Psalmi Penit. (1894) 38 Yn this world ys no scharpur arwe, Than the turment [MS. turnement] that me gan tarie [rime marie]. 1567 Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 176 Kingis to marie, and sum to tarie, Sic is his power and mycht. |
2. To weary, tire, fatigue. (Cf. tar v.2 2.)
| c 1375 in T. Wright Rel. Antiq. I. 9 Fatigatus, y-taried. |
Hence † tarying, teryynge vbl. n., provoking; † taryer, teryare, a provoker, vexer; † taryingness, provocation.
| a 1300 E.E. Psalter xciv. 9 [xcv. 8] Als aftre dai in taryingnesse Ofe fandinge in wildernesse. a 1400 Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. xxii, Of tarienges & temptacions that Soules fele bi her ghostly enmyes. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 489/2 Teryare, or ertare, irritator... Teryynge, or ertynge, irritacio. |
[Note. The form teryyn (= tery-en, teri-en) in Promp. Parv., with its derivatives teryare, teryynge, points to OE. tęrᵹan, with the palatal ᵹ reduced to y consonant or i, as in the actually recorded late OE. form tyrian (imper. tyrie, pa. tense tyrᵹde, tyriᵹde, tyride), giving a ME. teri-en (tery-yn), with a variant tary-en, tari-en, perh. from an Anglian *tærᵹ(e)an, as in weryen, warien, from OE. węrᵹean, wærᵹean, więrᵹan, wyrᵹean, wyrian, warry, to curse. The coincidence of tarien in form and meaning with OF. tarier would tend to reinforce it as the leading form. It is noteworthy that ME. examples of tary- are not known before c 1300, and that tery- is cited only from Promp. Parv. As to possible connexion with tarry see Note to that vb.]
▪ III. tary, taryance, -ans etc.,
obs. ff. tarry, tarriance.