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ht; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness. "Weights of an extraordinary poise." Evelyn.

The balancer of dipterous insects.

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Balanced.

equal power; to balance. So many freeholders of English will be able to beard and counterpoise the rest. Spenser.

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.

To outweigh. Howell.

To outweigh; to overbalance. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter snout. Called also harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and snuffer.

To weigh, estimate, or rate below desert; to undervalue. [R.] Marston.

Not poised or balanced.

A hydrometer.

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

bility; also, inherent stability. An aëroplane is inherently stable if it keeps in steady poise by virtue of its shape and proportions alone; it is automatically stable if it keeps in steady poise by means of self-operative mechanism.

Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.

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

nciple of the seesaw, in which one end rises as the other falls. Bascule bridge, a counterpoise or balanced drawbridge, which is opened by sinking the counterpoise and thus lifting the footway into the air.

sting voice." B. Trumbull. -- Casting weight, a weight that turns a balance when exactly poised.

A counterpoise.

A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam. Money is the counterbalance to all other things purchasable by it. Locke.