Pendulous, impending: “all the plagues that in the p. air hang fated o'er men's faults,” Lr. III, 4, 69 (cf. the Birth of Merlin IV, 1: knowest thou what p. mischief roofs thy head, how fatal, and how sudden?).
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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