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pause sb.: hesitation, suspense Mer.V. II. ix. 53, Troil IV. iv. 35, Ham. IV. iii. 9; “give” (one) “pause,” cause one to hesitate, ‘pull up’ Ham. III. i. 68; “in pause,” hesitating Ham. III. iii. 42 “I stand in where I shall first begin.”

