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Poise :: Poise (n.) To counterpoise; to counterbalance.

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.

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

Equipoise :: Equipoise (n.) Counterpoise.

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..

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

Nuzzle :: Nuzzle (v. i.) To go with head poised like a swine, with nose down..

Equilibration :: Equilibration (n.) Act of keeping a balance, or state of being balanced; equipoise..

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

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

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

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

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

Pellack :: Pellack (n.) A porpoise.

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.

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..

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

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

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