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

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

Equipoise :: Equipoise (n.) Counterpoise.

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

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

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

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

Counterpoise :: Counterpoise (n.) An equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Poize :: Poize (n.) See Poise.

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

Paise :: Paise (n.) See Poise.

Equipoise :: Equipoise (n.) Equality of weight or force; hence, equilibrium; a state in which the two ends or sides of a thing are balanced, and hence equal; state of being equally balanced; -- said of moral, political, or social interests or forces..

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

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