To delay or postpone (an event).
To allow (a person) extra time to fulfil some obligation.
The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.
A brief interval of rest or relief.
A short period of spoken dialogue in an otherwise sung-through musical.
A reprieve, especially from a sentence of death.
To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.
To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
To hang freely; underhang.
To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
To halt something temporarily.
To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.