3. To hesitate; to hold back; to delay. [R.]

Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture.

Shak.

4. To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect. [R.]

"Take time to pause." Shak.

To pause upon, to deliberate concerning. Shak.

Syn. -- To intermit; stop; stay; wait; delay; tarry; hesitate; demur.

Pause, v. t. To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively. [R.] Shak.

Paus"er (?), n. One who pauses. Shak.

Paus"ing*ly, adv. With pauses; haltingly. Shak.

||Paux"i (?), n. [From the native name: cf. Sp. pauji.] (Zoˆl.) A

||curassow (Ourax pauxi), which, in South America, is often

||domesticated.

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