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n.
The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied.
a.
Not poised or weighed; hence, regardless of consequences; unhesitating.
v. i.
To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt.
n.
To counterpoise; to counterbalance.
n.
A stone, often of great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised that it can be rocked, or slightly moved, with but little force.
v. i.
To vibrate as a balance does before resting in equilibrium; hence, to be poised.
n.
To weigh (down); to oppress.
n.
See Poise.
n.
To hold or place in equilibrium or equiponderance.
v.
The state of being balanced by equal weight or power; equipoise; balance; equilibrium; rest.
n.
To ascertain, as by the balance; to weigh.
v.
That which causes a balance; a counterweight.
n.
To balance; to make of equal weight; as, to poise the scales of a balance.
n.
The balancer of dipterous insects.
imp. & p. p.
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v. i.
To go with head poised like a swine, with nose down.
a.
Not poised or balanced.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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v. t.
To poise; to balance.
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