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

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 hold or place in equilibrium or equiponderance.

Water Poise :: Water poise () A hydrometer.

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

Paise :: Paise (n.) See Poise.

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

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

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..

Overpoise :: Overpoise (v. t.) To outweigh; to overbalance.

Balance :: Balance (n.) Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.

Spiracle :: Spiracle (n.) The nostril, or one of the nostrils, of whales, porpoises, and allied animals..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Equipoise :: Equipoise (n.) Counterpoise.

Snuffer :: Snuffer (n.) The common porpoise.

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