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Plyer :: Plyer (n.) A kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge. It consists of timbers joined in the form of a St. Andrew's cross.

Trip :: Trip (n.) A false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake.

Chronometer :: Chronometer (n.) A portable timekeeper, with a heavy compensation balance, and usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time with great accuracy for use an astronomical observations, in determining longitude, etc..

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel..

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

Giddy :: Giddy (superl.) Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy..

Overbalance :: Overbalance (n.) Excess of weight or value; something more than an equivalent; as, an overbalance of exports..

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

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

Drosometer :: Drosometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the quantity of dew on the surface of a body in the open air. It consists of a balance, having a plate at one end to receive the dew, and at the other a weight protected from the deposit of dew..

Balanced :: Balanced (imp. & p. p.) of Balanc.

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

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

Libra :: Libra (n.) The Balance; the seventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the autumnal equinox in September, marked thus / in almanacs, etc..

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

Equilibrious :: Equilibrious (a.) Evenly poised; balanced.

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

Balance Wheel :: Balance wheel () A ratchet-shaped scape wheel, which in some watches is acted upon by the axis of the balance wheel proper (in those watches called a balance)..

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

Bifilar :: Bifilar (a.) Two-threaded; involving the use of two threads; as, bifilar suspension; a bifilar balance..

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