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To poise. [Obs.] Spenser.

A weight; a poise. [Obs.] "To weigh pence with a peise." Piers Plowman.

A porpoise.

Of or pertaining to dolphin oil or porpoise oil; -- said of an acid (called also delphinic acid) subsequently found to be identical with valeric acid. Watts.

See Poise. [Obs.]

A porpoise. [Obs.]

A porpoise. [Obs.] Swift.

Inscribed with a posy. In poised lockets bribe the fair. Gay.

The common, or harbor, porpoise.

adder. (Zoöl.) Same as Puff adder (b), under Puff. -- Puffing pig (Zoöl.), the common porpoise.

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.

The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied.

The porpoise.

A porpoise or dolphin.

shes forth; and as they sweep, On sounding skates, a thousand different ways, In circling poise, swift as the winds, along, The then gay land is maddended all to joy. Thomson. Roller skate. See under Roller.

The common porpoise.

sionally found on the American coast. Called also snub-nosed cachalot. -- Sperm-whale porpoise (Zoöl.), a toothed cetacean (Hyperoödon bidens), found on both sides of the Atlantic and valued for its oil. The adult becomes about twenty-five feet long, and its head is very large and thick. Called also bottle-nosed whale…

The nostril, or one of the nostrils, of whales, porpoises, and allied animals.

ghed is suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a fulcrum, and a counterpoise is caused to slide upon the longer arm to produce equilibrium, its place upon this arm (which is notched or graduated) indicating the weight; a Roman balance; -- very commonly used also in the plural form, steelyards.…

ur former chiefs, like sticklers of the war, First sought to inflame the parties, then to poise. Dryden.