(n.) A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action;
interruption; suspension; cessation.
(n.) Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.
(n.) In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension
of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their
parts.
(n.) In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and
nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach
the pupil to mind the pauses.
(n.) A break or paragraph in writing.
(n.) A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.
(n.) To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit
speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.
(n.) To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.
(n.) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
(n.) To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to
reflect.
(v. t.) To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.
