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A menace or threat. Jer. Taylor.

MENACE
The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come. His commands, his rebukes, his menaces. Milman. The dark menace of the distant war. Dryden. (more info) acis, projecting,
THREATEN
1. To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn. Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
THREAT
The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; meance; threatening; denunciation. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. Shak. (more info) irdriozan, Icel. to fail,
TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
THREATFUL
Full of threats; having a menacing appearance. Spenser. -- Threat"ful*ly, adv.
MENACER
One who menaces.
THREATENER
One who threatens. Shak.
THREATENING
a. & n. from Threaten, v. -- Threat"en*ing*ly, adv. Threatening letters , letters containing threats, especially those designed to extort money, or to obtain other property, by menaces; blackmailing letters.