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

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

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

Balance :: Balance (n.) The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness.

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

Unpoised :: Unpoised (a.) Not poised or weighed; hence, regardless of consequences; unhesitating..

Antilibration :: Antilibration (n.) A balancing; equipoise.

Poise :: Poise (v.) The state of being balanced by equal weight or power; equipoise; balance; equilibrium; rest.

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.

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

Water Poise :: Water poise () A hydrometer.

Overpoise :: Overpoise (v. t.) To outweigh; to overbalance.

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.

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

Outpoise :: Outpoise (v. t.) To outweigh.

Overpoise :: Overpoise (n.) Preponderant weight; a counterbalance.

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

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

Equipoise :: Equipoise (n.) Counterpoise.

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