Definition of balance

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Balance (v. i.) To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance..

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Balance :: Balance (n.) A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary)..
Poise :: Poise (v. i.) To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt..
Counterbalance :: Counterbalance (n.) A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another.
Minuet :: Minuet (n.) A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupee, a high step, and a balance..
Sag :: Sag (v. i.) Fig.: To lose firmness or elasticity; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced..
Poise :: Poise (v.) The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed..
Unbalanced :: Unbalanced (a.) Not adjusted; not settled; not brought to an equality of debt and credit; as, an unbalanced account; unbalanced books..
Hammerhead :: Hammerhead (n.) A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygaena, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygaena is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish..
Self-suspended :: Self-suspended (a.) Suspended by one's self or by itself; balanced.
Beam :: Beam (n.) The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended..
Balancereef :: Balancereef (n.) The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship..
Equilibration :: Equilibration (n.) The process by which animal and vegetable organisms preserve a physiological balance.
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..
Lopsided :: Lopsided (a.) Unbalanced; poorly proportioned; full of idiosyncrasies.
Weal-balanced :: Weal-balanced (a.) Balanced or considered with reference to public weal.
Counter :: Counter (adv.) A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a..
Counterpoise :: Counterpoise (n.) The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrium; equiponderance.
Balance :: Balance (n.) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to balance partners..
Counterbalanced :: Counterbalanced (imp. & p. p.) of Counterbalanc.
Reckon :: Reckon (v. i.) To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
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