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; -- said of moral, political, or social interests or forces. The means of preserving the equipoise and the tranquillity of the commonwealth. Burke. Our little lives are kept in equipoise By opposite attractions and desires. Longfellow.

A balancing; equipoise. [R.] De Quincey.

Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.

The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. [R.] Darwin.

lance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise. H. Spenser.

Act of keeping a balance, or state of being balanced; equipoise. In . . . running, leaping, and dancing, nature's laws of equilibration are observed. J. Denham.

Equality of weight or force; an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual counteraction of two or more forces.

The act or condition of hanging in equipoise; not inclined or determined either way. South.

Equality of weight; equipoise.

Balancing; moving like a balance, as it tends to an equipoise or level.

The state of being balanced by equal weight or power; equipoise; balance; equilibrium; rest. Bentley.

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