"Menace" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

A threat; the declaration or show of a disposition or determination to inflict an evil or injury upon another. Cum-ming v. State, 99 Ga. 662, 27 S. E. 177; Mor-rill v. Nightingale, 93 Cal. 452, 28 Pac. 1068, 27 Am. St Rep. 207

To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening
aspect.

To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.

To express or show an intention to inflict, or to hold out
a prospect of inflicting, evil or injury upon; to threaten; -- usually
followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country
with war.

The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or
threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.