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Of equal weight on both sides; balanced. [Obs.] Glanvill.

A pond for watering horses.

The quality or state of being imponderable; imponderableness.

Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed.

The quality or state of being imponderable.

Imponderable. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. -- Im*pon"der*ous*ness, n. [Obs.]

Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion. [R.]

Not corresponding; disagreeing. [R.] Coleridge.

An extensive order of fishes, including the salmons, herrings, and many allied forms.

Of or pertaining to the Isospondyli; having the anterior vertebræ separate and normal.

A pond where fish are fed. Walton.

Too heavy.

An extensive suborder of fresh-water physostomous fishes having the anterior vertebræ united and much modified; the Eventognathi.

Of or pertaining to the Plectospondyli.

To preponderate [Obs.]

The quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing. The mind should . . . reject or receive proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater grounds of probability. Locke. In a few weeks he had changed the relative position of all the states in Europ…

Preponderating; outweighing; overbalancing; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a preponderant weight; of preponderant importance. -- Pre*pon"der*ant*ly, adv.

verbalance. An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the center of the balance, will preponderate greater magnitudes. Glanvill.

In a preponderating manner; preponderantly.

The act or state of preponderating; preponderance; as, a preponderation of reasons. I. Watts.