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Reprieve :: Reprieve (n.) A temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence, especially of a sentence of death..

Baroscope :: Baroscope (n.) Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes..

Hesitation :: Hesitation (n.) The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation.

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Of decision, determination, judgment, etc.; as, to ask a suspension of judgment or opinion in view of evidence to be produced..

Vested :: Vested (a.) Not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed; as, vested rights; vested interests..

Cable :: Cable (n.) A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable..

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Of punishment, or sentence of punishment..

Pause :: Pause (n.) A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Of a person in respect of the exercise of his office, powers, prerogative, etc.; as, the suspension of a student or of a clergyman..

Catalepsis :: Catalepsis (n.) A sudden suspension of sensation and volition, the body and limbs preserving the position that may be given them, while the action of the heart and lungs continues..

Trance :: Trance (n.) A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible..

Suspense :: Suspensation (n.) The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended, especially for a short time; temporary suspension..

Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To die or be put to death by suspension from the neck.

Anchor :: Anchor (v. t.) To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge..

Unifilar :: Unifilar (a.) Having only one thread; involving the use of only one thread, wire, fiber, or the like; as, unifilar suspension..

Suspensive :: Suspension (n.) The prolongation of one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects. Cf. Retardation..

Retardation :: Retardation (n.) The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.

Sist :: Sist (n.) A stay or suspension of proceedings; an order for a stay of proceedings.

Sleep :: Sleep (v. i.) To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber..

Suspensely :: Suspense (a.) A temporary cessation of one's right; suspension, as when the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of possession of land and rent..

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