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Pause :: Pause (n.) To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.

Pannier :: Pannier (n.) A table waiter at the Inns of Court, London..

Servifor :: Servifor (n.) An undergraduate, partly supported by the college funds, whose duty it formerly was to wait at table. A servitor corresponded to a sizar in Cambridge and Dublin universities..

Expectant :: Expectant (a.) waiting for the efforts of nature, with little active treatment..

Waiter :: Waiter (n.) A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver..

Twaite :: Twaite (n.) A piece of cleared ground. See Thwaite.

Wonder :: Wonder (v. i.) To feel doubt and curiosity; to wait with uncertain expectation; to query in the mind; as, he wondered why they came..

Bide :: Bide (v. t.) To wait for; as, I bide my time. See Abide..

Wait :: Wait (v. t.) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect..

Remain :: Remain (v. t.) To await; to be left to.

Waiting :: Waiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wai.

Look :: Look (v. i.) To await the appearance of anything; to expect; to anticipate.

Engineman :: Engineman (n.) A man who manages, or waits on, an engine..

Pass :: Pass (v. t.) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make over; as, the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the torch was passed from hand to hand..

Lobby :: Lobby (n.) A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechamber to one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved..

Shad :: Shad (n. sing. & pl.) Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species (Clupea sapidissima), which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose (C. alosa), and the twaite shad. (C. finta), are less important species..

Limbus :: Limbus (n.) An extramundane region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the judgment.

Pay :: Pay (v. i.) Hence, to make or secure suitable return for expense or trouble; to be remunerative or profitable; to be worth the effort or pains required; as, it will pay to ride; it will pay to wait; politeness always pays..

Galilee :: Galilee (n.) A porch or waiting room, usually at the west end of an abbey church, where the monks collected on returning from processions, where bodies were laid previous to interment, and where women were allowed to see the monks to whom they were related, or to hear divine service. Also, frequently applied to the porch of a church, as at Ely and Durham cathedrals..

Expectant :: Expectant (n.) One who waits in expectation; one held in dependence by hope of receiving some good.

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