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t; to exceed in weight or effect. Let dull Ajax bear away my right When all his days outbalance this one night. Dryden.

Having a form intermediate between ovate and lanceolate.

To cause to lose balance or equilibrium.

To glance over.

Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal parlance; in common parlance. A hate of gossip parlance and of sway. Tennyson.

ious ill humor. "The petulancy of our words." B. Jonson. Like pride in some, and like petulance in others. Clarendon. The lowering eye, the petulance, the frown. Cowper.

Renewal. [Obs.] Chaucer.

de; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden.

Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form. Thier semblance kind, and mild their gestures were. Fairfax.

The quality or state of being sibilant; sibilation. Milton would not have avoided them for their sibilancy, he who wrote . . . verses that hiss like Medusa's head in wrath. Lowell.

Oversight; watch; inspection; supervision. That sort of surveillance of which . . . the young have accused the old. Sir W. Scott.

The testing of a ledger to discover whether the debits and credits balance, by finding whether the sum of the personal credits increased by the difference between the debit and credit sums in the merchandise and other impersonal accounts equals the sum of personal debits. The equality would not show that the items were…

Not balanced; not in equipoise; having no counterpoise, or having insufficient counterpoise. Let Earth unbalanced from her orbit fly. Pope.

that which hangs around a bedstead, from the bed to the floor. [Written also valence.] Valance of Venice gold in needlework. Shak.

n. Cowper. And flaming ministers to watch and tend Their earthly charge; of these the vigilance I dread. Milton.

The appearance of truth; verisimilitude.

Balanced or considered with reference to public weal. [Obs.] Shak.

s; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye. [Archaic] Bacon. Saying so, he abased his lance. Shelton.

of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B.

Without inclination or dipping; -- said the magnetic needle balances itself horizontally, having no dip. The aclinic line is also termed the magnetic equator. Prof. August.