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Phocenic :: Phocenic (a.) Of or pertaining to dolphin oil or porpoise oil; -- said of an acid (called also delphinic acid) subsequently found to be identical with valeric acid.

Poise :: Poise (v. i.) To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt..

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

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

Delphinoidea :: Delphinoidea (n. pl.) The division of Cetacea which comprises the dolphins, porpoises, and related forms..

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

Porpesse :: Porpesse (n.) A porpoise.

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

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..

Equipoise :: Equipoise (n.) Counterpoise.

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

Sea Hog :: Sea hog () The porpoise.

Scalebeam :: Scalebeam (n.) The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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