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Unbalanced :: Unbalanced (a.) Not adjusted; not settled; not brought to an equality of debt and credit; as, an unbalanced account; unbalanced books..

Counterbalanced :: Counterbalanced (imp. & p. p.) of Counterbalanc.

Balance :: Balance (v. i.) To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force; to waver; to hesitate.

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

Overbalance :: Overbalance (v. t.) To exceed equality with; to outweigh.

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

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..

Cockhead :: Cockhead (n.) The rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced..

Outbalance :: Outbalance (v. t.) To outweight; to exceed in weight or effect.

Balance :: Balance (n.) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail..

Equilibrity :: Equilibrity (n.) The state of being balanced; equality of weight.

Balance Wheel :: Balance wheel () A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock; -- often called simply a balance..

Libration :: Libration (n.) A real or apparent libratory motion, like that of a balance before coming to rest..

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

Aclinic :: Aclinic (a.) Without inclination or dipping; -- said the magnetic needle balances itself horizontally, having no dip. The aclinic line is also termed the magnetic equator..

Lift :: Lift (n.) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

Trebucket :: Trebucket (n.) A kind of balance for weighing.

Change :: Change (v. t.) Small money; the money by means of which the larger coins and bank bills are made available in small dealings; hence, the balance returned when payment is tendered by a coin or note exceeding the sum due..

Verge :: Verge (n.) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement..

Weigh :: Weigh (v. t.) To be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to have the heaviness of.

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