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Payse :: Payse (v. t.) To poise.

Sea Hog :: Sea hog () The porpoise.

Antilibration :: Antilibration (n.) A balancing; equipoise.

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

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

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

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..

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

Counterpoise :: Counterpoise (v. t.) To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.

Poize :: Poize (n.) See Poise.

Steem :: Steelyard (n.) A form of balance in which the body to be weighed is suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a fulcrum, and a counterpoise is caused to slide upon the longer arm to produce equilibrium, its place upon this arm (which is notched or graduated) indicating the weight; a Roman balance; -- very commonly used also in the plural form, steelyards..

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

Balancement :: Balancement (n.) The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces.

Counterbalance :: Counterbalance (n.) A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam..

Balance :: Balance (n.) The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness.

Rocking-stone :: Rocking-stone (n.) A stone, often of great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised that it can be rocked, or slightly moved, with but little force..

Equilibrium :: Equilibrium (n.) Equality of weight or force; an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual counteraction of two or more forces.

Outpoise :: Outpoise (v. t.) To outweigh.

Poise :: Poise (v.) Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness.

Counterpoised :: Counterpoised (imp. & p. p.) of Counterpois.

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