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Balancereef :: Balancereef (n.) The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship..

Balance :: Balance (v. i.) To move toward a person or couple, and then back..

Fin :: Fin (n.) An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water..

Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice..

Balance :: Balance (n.) To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope..

Apoise :: Apoise (adv.) Balanced.

Hairspring :: Hairspring (n.) The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece.

Balance :: Balance (n.) An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account..

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

Equipondious :: Equipondious (a.) Of equal weight on both sides; balanced.

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

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

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

Equibalance :: Equibalance (n.) Equal weight; equiponderance.

Equilibrity :: Equilibrity (n.) The state of being balanced; equality of weight.

Tongue :: Tongue (n.) A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance..

Offset :: Offset (v. t.) To set off; to place over against; to balance; as, to offset one account or charge against another..

Counterbalance :: Counterbalance (n.) A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the wheel.

Sway :: Sway (n.) Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.

Auncel :: Auncel (n.) A rude balance for weighing, and a kind of weight, formerly used in England..

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