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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pause \Pause\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Paused}; p. pr & vb n.
{Pausing}.] [Cf. F. pauser, L. pausare See {Pause}, n.,
{Pose}.]
1. To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit
speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest. ``Tarry,
pause a day or two.'' --Shak.
Pausing while thus to herself she mused. --Milton.
2. To be intermitted; to cease; as the music pauses.
3. To hesitate; to hold back to delay. [R.]
Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture. --Shak.
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