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

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

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..

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

Poise :: Poise (v.) The state of being balanced by equal weight or power; equipoise; balance; equilibrium; rest.

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

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

Homodont :: Homodont (a.) Having all the teeth similar in front, as in the porpoises; -- opposed to heterodont..

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

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..

Libratory :: Libratory (a.) Balancing; moving like a balance, as it tends to an equipoise or level..

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

Counterponderate :: Counterponderate (v. t.) To equal in weight; to counterpoise; to equiponderate.

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

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

Balance :: Balance (v. i.) To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance..

Poize :: Poize (n.) See Poise.

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

Counter Weight :: Counter weight (n.) A counterpoise.

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

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