Word Meanings - PAYSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To poise. Spenser.

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• POISER
  The balancer of dipterous insects.
• POISE
  pensum a portion weighed out, pendere to weigh, weigh out. Cf. 1. Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness. "Weights of an extraordinary poise." Evelyn. 2. The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• COUNTERPOISE
  countrepesen, counterpeisen, F. contrepeser. See Counter, adv., and 1. To act against with equal weight; to equal in weght; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance. Weigts, counterpoising one another. Sir K. Digby. 2. To act against with equal
• OUTPOISE
  To outweigh. Howell.
• APOISE
  Balanced.
• OVERPOISE
  To outweigh; to overbalance. Sir T. Browne.
• UNPOISED
  1. Not poised or balanced. 2. Not poised or weighed; hence, regardless of consequences; unhesitating. Marston.
• WATER POISE
  A hydrometer.
• EQUIPOISE
  1. 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. The means
• PORPOISE
  Any small cetacean of the genus Phocæna, especially P. communis, or P. phocæna, of Europe, and the closely allied American species . The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath. They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter
• UNDERPOISE
  To weigh, estimate, or rate below desert; to undervalue. Marston.