wait

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To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.

(ux)

(RQ:Milton Poems 1673)
{{RQ:Dryden Virgil|Aeneis
(RQ:Churchill Celebrity)
(quote-journal)
To tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “for”.)

(coi)

{{quote-book|en|year=1992|author=Hilary Mantel|title=A Place of Greater Safety|publisher=Harper Perennial|year_published=2007|page=30
To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
{{quote-text|en|year=1714|author=Nicholas Rowe|title=The Tragedy of Jane Shore
To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
To defer or postpone (especially a meal).
(quote-book)|title=Celestina|publisher=Broadview|year_published=2004|page=185
To watch with malicious intent; to in wait
To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence.
{{quote-text|en|year=1957|author=Dagny Taggart; Francisco d'Anconia, Ayn Rand's|title=Atlas Shrugged
{{quote-text|en|year=1974|author=The Bee Gees|title=Night Fever
A delay.
An ambush.
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
(short for)
One who watches; a watchman.
Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
(RQ:Livy Holland Romane Historie)as he returned home to his owne house, the waits should sound the hautboies all the way
Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen. waites, wayghtes.
(RQ:Beaumont Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies)
1819-1820, (w), ''The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon''

The sound of the waits, rude as may be their minstrelsy, breaks upon the mild watches of a winter night with the effect of perfect harmony.