Definitions
1.verbTo deliberately act evasively or prolong a discussion in order to gain time or postpone a decision, sometimes in order to reach a compromise or simply to make a conversation more temperate; to stall for time.
2.verbTo apply a temporary piece of dental work that will later be removed.
3.verbTo comply with the time or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the current of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two parties.
4.verbTo delay; to procrastinate.
5.verbTo comply; to agree.
6.nounThe act of one who temporizes, or acts evasively.