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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

Poise :: Poise (n.) To balance; to make of equal weight; as, to poise the scales of a balance..

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..

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

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

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

Counterpoise :: Counterpoise (n.) The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrium; equiponderance.

Apoise :: Apoise (adv.) Balanced.

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

Poise :: Poise (n.) To hold or place in equilibrium or equiponderance.

Pellack :: Pellack (n.) A porpoise.

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

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