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Overweigh :: Overweigh (v. t.) To exceed in weight; to overbalance; to weigh down.

Escapement :: Escapement (n.) The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration; -- so called because it allows a tooth to escape from a pallet at each vibration..

Weigh :: Weigh (v. i.) To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.

Counterbalance :: Counterbalance (n.) A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another.

Balancer :: Balancer (n.) One who balances, or uses a balance..

Countervail :: Countervail (v. t.) To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate..

Close :: Close (v. t.) Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; as, a close vote..

Balance :: Balance (n.) The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness.

Poiser :: Poiser (n.) The balancer of dipterous insects.

Counterbalance :: Counterbalance (n.) A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam..

Counterpoise :: Counterpoise (n.) A weight sufficient to balance another, as in the opposite scale of a balance; an equal weight..

Even :: Even (a.) Balanced; adjusted; fair; equitable; impartial; just to both side; owing nothing on either side; -- said of accounts, bargains, or persons indebted; as, our accounts are even; an even bargain..

Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.

Rest :: Rest (n.) The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account.

Trip :: Trip (v. t.) To cause to stumble, or take a false step; to cause to lose the footing, by striking the feet from under; to cause to fall; to throw off the balance; to supplant; -- often followed by up; as, to trip up a man in wrestling..

Balancereef :: Balancereef (n.) The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship..

Equipondious :: Equipondious (a.) Of equal weight on both sides; balanced.

Weigh :: Weigh (v. t.) To examine or test as if by the balance; to ponder in the mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion; to estimate deliberately and maturely; to balance.

Beam :: Beam (n.) The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended..

Counterscale :: Counterscale (n.) Counterbalance; balance, as of one scale against another..

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