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

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..

Galantine :: Galantine (n.) A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold..

Phalangious :: Phalangious (a.) Of or pertaining to Phalangoidea.

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

Counterbalancing :: Counterbalancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Counterbalanc.

Snowslip :: Snowslip (n.) A large mass or avalanche of snow which slips down the side of a mountain, etc..

Metacarpus :: Metacarpus (n.) That part of the skeleton of the hand or forefoot between the carpus and phalanges. In man it consists of five bones. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.

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..

Tongue :: Tongue (n.) A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance..

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

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

Phalangite :: Phalangite (n.) A soldier belonging to a phalanx.

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..

Bearer :: Bearer (n.) A palanquin carrier; also, a house servant..

Catalan :: Catalan (a.) Of or pertaining to Catalonia.

Alan :: Alan (n.) A wolfhound.

Balanite :: Balanite (n.) A fossil balanoid shell.

Regulator :: Regulator (n.) A contrivance for regulating and controlling motion, as: (a) The lever or index in a watch, which controls the effective length of the hairspring, and thus regulates the vibrations of the balance. (b) The governor of a steam engine. (c) A valve for controlling the admission of steam to the steam chest, in a locomotive..

Aard-wolf :: Aard-wolf (n.) A carnivorous quadruped (Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. See Proteles..

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