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

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

Pellack :: Pellack (n.) A porpoise.

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

Porpoise :: Porpoise (n.) A true dolphin (Delphinus); -- often so called by sailors.

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..

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.

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..

Balancement :: Balancement (n.) The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces.

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

Delphinoidea :: Delphinoidea (n. pl.) The division of Cetacea which comprises the dolphins, porpoises, and related forms..

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

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

Poise :: Poise (v.) Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness.

Puffer :: Puffer (n.) The common, or harbor, porpoise..

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..

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

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

Counterpoise :: Counterpoise (n.) The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrium; equiponderance.

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