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Equipoise :: Equipoise (n.) Counterpoise.

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

Pellack :: Pellack (n.) A porpoise.

Nuzzle :: Nuzzle (v. i.) To go with head poised like a swine, with nose down..

Poise :: Poise (n.) To ascertain, as by the balance; to weigh..

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

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

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..

Water Poise :: Water poise () A hydrometer.

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..

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.) That which causes a balance; a counterweight.

Porpoise :: Porpoise (n.) A true dolphin (Delphinus); -- often so called by sailors.

Balance :: Balance (n.) To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize..

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

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..

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

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

Sea Pig :: Sea pig () A porpoise or dolphin.

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

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