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Poise [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. poiz.

2. Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend or tend to the center.

3. The weight or mass of metal used in weighing with steelyards, to balance the substance weighed.

4. Balance; equilibrium; a state in which things are balanced by equal weight or power; equipoise. The mind may rest in a poise between two opinions.

5. The particles forming the earth, must convene from all quarters towards the middle, which would make the whole compound rest in a poise

6. A regulating power; that which balances.

7. Men of an unbounded imagination often want the poise of judgment.

Poise [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. poiz.

2. To balance in weight; to make of equal weight; as, to poise the scales of a balance.

3. To hold or place in equilibrium or equiponderance.

4. Our nation with united interest blest,

5. Not now content to poise shall sway the rest.

6. To load with weight for balancing.

7. Where could they find another form so fit,

8. To poise with solid sense a sprightly wit?

9. To examine or ascertain, as by the balance; to weigh.

10. He cannot consider the strength, poise the weight, and discern the evidence of the clearest argumentations, where they would conclude against his desires.

11. To oppress; to weigh down.

12. Lest leaden slumber poise me down to-morrow,

13. When I should mount on wings of victory.

Poise [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To balance; to make of equal weight; as, to poise the scales of a balance.

2. To hold or place in equilibrium or equiponderance.

3. To counterpoise; to counterbalance.

4. To ascertain, as by the balance; to weigh.

5. To weigh (down); to oppress.

Poise [Verb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness.

2. The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed.

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

4. That which causes a balance; a counterweight.

Poise [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt.

Poised [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Balanced; made equal in weight; resting in equilibrium.

Poised [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Poise

Poiser [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The balancer of dipterous insects.

Equality Roget’s Thesaurus §27

N. equality, parity, coextension, symmetry, balance, poise, evenness, monotony, level, equivalence, equipollence, equipoise, equilibrium, equiponderance, par, quits, a wash, not a pin to choose, distinction without a difference, six of one and half a dozen of the other, tweedle dee and tweedle dum, identity, similarity, equalization, equation, equilibration, co*ordination, adjustment, readjustment, drawn game, drawn battle, neck and neck race, tie, draw, standoff, dead heat, match, peer, compeer, equal, mate, fellow, brother, equivalent

V. be equal, equal, match, reach, keep pace with, run abreast, come to, amount to, come up to, be on a level with, lie on a level with, balance, cope with, come to the same thing, render equal, equalize level, dress, balance, equate, handicap, give points, spot points, handicap, trim, adjust, poise, fit, accommodate, adapt, strike a balance, establish equality, restore equality, restore equilibrium, readjust, stretch on the bed of procrustes

Adj. equal, even, level, monotonous, coequal, symmetrical, coordinate, on a par with, on a level with, on a footing with, up to the mark, equiparant, equivalent, tantamount, indistinguishable, quits, homologous, synonymous, resolvable into, convertible, much at one, as broad as long, neither more nor less, much the same as, the same thing as, as good as, all one, all the same, equipollent, equiponderant, equiponderous, equibalanced, equalized, drawn, half and half, isochronal, isochronous isoperimetric, isoperimetrical, isobath, isobathic

Adv. equally, pari passu, ad eundum, caeteris paribus, in equilibrio, to all intents and purposes

Phr. it comes to the same thing, it amounts to the same thing, what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

Gravity Roget’s Thesaurus §319

N. gravity, gravitation, weight, heaviness, # specific gravity, pondorosity, pressure, load, burden, burthen, ballast, counterpoise, lump of, mass of, weight of, lead, millstone, mountain, ossa on pelion, weighing, ponderation, trutination|, weights, avoirdupois weight, troy weight, apothecaries' weight, grain, scruple, drachma, ounce, pound, lb, arroba, load, stone, hundredweight, cwt, ton, long ton, metric ton, quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod, gram, centigram, milligram, microgram, kilogram, nanogram, picogram, femtogram, attogram, balance, scale, scales, steelyard, beam, weighbridge, spring balance, piezoelectric balance, analytical balance, two-pan balance, one-pan balance, postal scale, baby scale, statics

V. be heavy, gravitate, weigh, press, cumber, load, weigh, poise

Adj. weighty, weighing, heavy as lead, ponderous, ponderable, lumpish, lumpy, cumbersome, burdensome, cumbrous, unwieldy, massive, incumbent, superincumbent