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

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

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

Counterpoise :: Counterpoise (v. t.) To act against with equal power; to balance.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Apoise :: Apoise (adv.) Balanced.

Unpoised :: Unpoised (a.) Not poised or balanced.

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.

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

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..

Water Poise :: Water poise () A hydrometer.

Poize :: Poize (n.) See Poise.

Porpus :: Porpus (n.) A porpoise.

Pellack :: Pellack (n.) A porpoise.

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