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Equiponderancy :: Equiponderancy (n.) Equality of weight; equipoise.

Equipoise :: Equipoise (n.) Equality of weight or force; hence, equilibrium; a state in which the two ends or sides of a thing are balanced, and hence equal; state of being equally balanced; -- said of moral, political, or social interests or forces..

Poise :: Poise (n.) To hold or place in equilibrium or equiponderance.

Equilibrium :: Equilibrium (n.) Equality of weight or force; an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual counteraction of two or more forces.

Payse :: Payse (v. t.) To poise.

Equilibrate :: Equilibrate (v. t.) To balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise..

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

Balance :: Balance (n.) To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance..

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

Dunter :: Dunter (n.) A porpoise.

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

Apoise :: Apoise (adv.) Balanced.

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

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

Poise :: Poise (n.) To balance; to make of equal weight; as, to poise the scales of a balance..

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

Peise :: Peise (v. t.) To poise or weight.

Delphin :: Delphin (n.) A fatty substance contained in the oil of the dolphin and the porpoise; -- called also phocenin.

Underpoise :: Underpoise (v. t.) To weigh, estimate, or rate below desert; to undervalue..

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..

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