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

Pellack :: Pellack (n.) A porpoise.

Counterpoise :: Counterpoise (n.) The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrium; equiponderance.

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

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

Equipendency :: Equipendency (n.) The act or condition of hanging in equipoise; not inclined or determined either way.

Balance :: Balance (n.) To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance..

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..

Poise :: Poise (n.) To counterpoise; to counterbalance.

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

Peise :: Peise (n.) A weight; a poise.

Paise :: Paise (n.) See Poise.

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

Water Poise :: Water poise () A hydrometer.

Counterpoise :: Counterpoise (n.) A weight sufficient to balance another, as in the opposite scale of a balance; an equal weight..

Poise :: Poise (v.) That which causes a balance; a counterweight.

Poiser :: Poiser (n.) The balancer of dipterous insects.

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..

Librate :: Librate (v. t.) To poise; to balance.

Librate :: Librate (v. i.) To vibrate as a balance does before resting in equilibrium; hence, to be poised..

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