Word Meanings - UNPOISED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Not poised or balanced. 2. Not poised or weighed; hence, regardless of consequences; unhesitating. Marston.

Related words: (words related to UNPOISED)

• POISON CUP
  1. A cup containing poison. 2. A cup that was supposed to break on having poison put into it.
• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• WEIGHTILY
  In a weighty manner.
• POISONSOME
  Poisonous. Holland.
• WEIGHMASTER
  One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.
• BALANCEMENT
  The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. Darwin.
• WEIGHER
  One who weighs; specifically, an officer whose duty it is to weigh commodities.
• WEIGH-HOUSE
  A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed.
• REGARDLESS
  1. Having no regard; heedless; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity. Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat. Milton. 2. Not regarded; slighted. Spectator. Syn. -- Heedless; negligent; careless; indifferent; unconcerned;
• WEIGHT
  The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it. Atomic weight. See under Atomic, and cf. Element. -- Dead weight, Feather weight, Heavy weight, Light weight, etc. See under Dead, Feather, etc. -- Weight of
• WEIGHTY
  1. Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body. 2. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous. "For sundry weighty reasons." Shak. Let me have your advice in a weighty affair. Swift.
• POISON BUSH
  Any fabaceous shrub of the genus Gastrolobium, the herbage of which is poisonous to stock; also, any species of several related genera, as Oxylobium, Gompholobium, etc. The plant Myoporum deserti, often distinguished as Ellangowan poison bush or
• WEIGHBOARD
  Clay intersecting a vein. Weale.
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• POISON
  potio a drink, draught, potion, a poisonous draught, fr. potare to 1. Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of
• BALANCEABLE
  Such as can be balanced.
• WEIGHABLE
  Capable of being weighed.
• BALANCER
  In Diptera, the rudimentary posterior wing. (more info) 1. One who balances, or uses a balance.
• BALANCE
  A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary). The constellation Libra. The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September. 8. A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i.,
• BALANCEREEF
  The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• WELTERWEIGHT
  1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that
• EMPOISONMENT
  The act of poisoning. Bacon.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• 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
• AWEIGH
  Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor. Totten.
• UNWEIGHING
  Not weighing or pondering; inconsiderate. Shak.
• COUNTERBALANCE
  To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance. The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the mercurial cylinder. Boyle. The cstudy of mind is necessary
• AVOIRDUPOIS
  where peis is fr. OF. peis weight, F. poids, L. pensum. See Aver, n., 1. Goods sold by weight. 2. Avoirdupois weight. 3. Weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois. Avoirdupois weight, a system of weights by which coarser commodities are
• OUTPOISE
  To outweigh. Howell.