(a) The act of threatening or fact of being threatened; threatening by word, action, or attitude; (b) a threat; (c) don manaces of lif, to make threats to kill; maken manace(s, make a threat or threats; usen (yeven) ~, threaten; word of ~, a spoken threat.

A threat of potential harm or danger posed by an abstract agent, a personification, or an object; don ~, to pose a threat; haven in ~, threaten (sb.); maken manaces, make threats; werken ~, carry out a threat.