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

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

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..

Unpoised :: Unpoised (a.) Not poised or weighed; hence, regardless of consequences; unhesitating..

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

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

Librate :: Librate (v. i.) To vibrate as a balance does before resting in equilibrium; hence, to be poised..

Overpoise :: Overpoise (n.) Preponderant weight; a counterbalance.

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

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

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

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

Equiponderancy :: Equiponderancy (n.) Equality of weight; equipoise.

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

Poise :: Poise (v.) That which causes a balance; a counterweight.

Dunter :: Dunter (n.) A porpoise.

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..

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

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

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

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