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Overpoise :: Overpoise (n.) Preponderant weight; a counterbalance.

Peise :: Peise (v. t.) To poise or weight.

Pellack :: Pellack (n.) A porpoise.

Water Poise :: Water poise () A hydrometer.

Unbalanced :: Unbalanced (a.) Not balanced; not in equipoise; having no counterpoise, or having insufficient counterpoise..

Scalebeam :: Scalebeam (n.) The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied..

Unpoised :: Unpoised (a.) Not poised or weighed; hence, regardless of consequences; unhesitating..

Porpoise :: Porpoise (n.) A true dolphin (Delphinus); -- often so called by sailors.

Equilibration :: Equilibration (n.) Act of keeping a balance, or state of being balanced; equipoise..

Poised :: Poised (imp. & p. p.) of Pois.

Phocenic :: Phocenic (a.) Of or pertaining to dolphin oil or porpoise oil; -- said of an acid (called also delphinic acid) subsequently found to be identical with valeric acid.

Air Poise :: Air poise () An instrument to measure the weight of air.

Underpoise :: Underpoise (v. t.) To weigh, estimate, or rate below desert; to undervalue..

Equilibrious :: Equilibrious (a.) Evenly poised; balanced.

Delphin :: Delphin (n.) A fatty substance contained in the oil of the dolphin and the porpoise; -- called also phocenin.

Equiponderancy :: Equiponderancy (n.) Equality of weight; equipoise.

Poise :: Poise (v.) The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed..

Equilibrium :: Equilibrium (n.) A level position; a just poise or balance in respect to an object, so that it remains firm; equipoise; as, to preserve the equilibrium of the body..

Porpoise :: Porpoise (n.) Any small cetacean of the genus Phocaena, especially P. communis, or P. phocaena, of Europe, and the closely allied American species (P. Americana). The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath. They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter snout. Called also harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and snuffer..

Poise :: Poise (n.) To balance; to make of equal weight; as, to poise the scales of a balance..

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