Definition of balance

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Balance (n.) To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them..

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Plyer :: Plyer (n.) A kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge. It consists of timbers joined in the form of a St. Andrew's cross.
Cock :: Cock (n.) The indicator of a balance.
Equilibration :: Equilibration (n.) Act of keeping a balance, or state of being balanced; equipoise..
Counterpoise :: Counterpoise (v. t.) To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.
Sag :: Sag (v. i.) Fig.: To lose firmness or elasticity; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced..
Balance Wheel :: Balance wheel () A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock; -- often called simply a balance..
Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice..
Poise :: Poise (v. i.) To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt..
Overpoise :: Overpoise (v. t.) To outweigh; to overbalance.
Unbalanced :: Unbalanced (a.) Being, or being thrown, out of equilibrium; hence, disordered or deranged in sense; unsteady; unsound; as, an unbalanced mind..
Reckon :: Reckon (v. i.) To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
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..
Rider :: Rider (n.) A small forked weight which straddles the beam of a balance, along which it can be moved in the manner of the weight on a steelyard..
Unequal :: Unequal (a.) Ill balanced or matched; disproportioned; hence, not equitable; partial; unjust; unfair..
Weigh :: Weigh (v. i.) To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
Balanced :: Balanced (imp. & p. p.) of Balanc.
Poise :: Poise (n.) To ascertain, as by the balance; to weigh..
Countervail :: Countervail (v. t.) To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate..
Sway :: Sway (n.) Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
Balancer :: Balancer (n.) One who balances, or uses a balance..
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