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Spiracle :: Spiracle (n.) The nostril, or one of the nostrils, of whales, porpoises, and allied animals..

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

Poise :: Poise (v.) The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed..

Counterponderate :: Counterponderate (v. t.) To equal in weight; to counterpoise; to equiponderate.

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

Balance :: Balance (n.) To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize..

Phocenic :: Phocenic (a.) Of or pertaining to dolphin oil or porpoise oil; -- said of an acid (called also delphinic acid) subsequently found to be identical with valeric acid.

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

Sea Pig :: Sea pig () A porpoise or dolphin.

Counterpoise :: Counterpoise (v. t.) To act against with equal power; to balance.

Librate :: Librate (v. i.) To vibrate as a balance does before resting in equilibrium; hence, to be poised..

Homodont :: Homodont (a.) Having all the teeth similar in front, as in the porpoises; -- opposed to heterodont..

Equipoise :: Equipoise (n.) Counterpoise.

Counterpoised :: Counterpoised (imp. & p. p.) of Counterpois.

Counter Weight :: Counter weight (n.) A counterpoise.

Scalebeam :: Scalebeam (n.) The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied..

Unbalanced :: Unbalanced (a.) Not balanced; not in equipoise; having no counterpoise, or having insufficient counterpoise..

Poise :: Poise (n.) To weigh (down); to oppress.

Steem :: Steelyard (n.) A form of balance in which the body to be weighed is suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a fulcrum, and a counterpoise is caused to slide upon the longer arm to produce equilibrium, its place upon this arm (which is notched or graduated) indicating the weight; a Roman balance; -- very commonly used also in the plural form, steelyards..

Snuffer :: Snuffer (n.) The common porpoise.

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