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Threatening; menacing. Bacon.

To project or impend over threateningly. His louering brows o'erwhelming his fair sight. Shak.

Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code.

To cause to fall; to cast down. On the other side they saw that perilous rock Threatening itself on them to ruinate. Spenser.

st to; to set off; to vary and render attractive. Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings. Sir P. Sidney.

Hence, to look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower. "The scowling heavens." Thomson.

not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly. New foes arise, Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains. Milton.

an author of suspicious innovations; suspicious circumstances. I spy a black, suspicious, threatening could. Shak.

ict 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.

To use threats, or menaces; also, to have a threatening appearance. Though the seas threaten, they are merciful. Shak.

Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination. He severely threatens such with the thunderbolt of excommunication. Hakewill.

To undo or unravel what is knitted together. Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow. Shak.