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Word Meanings - EQUILIBRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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  • SIDESADDLE
    A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
  • EQUALIZER
    One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
  • WEIGHTINESS
    The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
  • WEIGHTILY
    In a weighty manner.
  • EQUALIZE
    1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely
  • BALANCEMENT
    The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. Darwin.
  • EQUALITY
    Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does. Confessional equality. See under
  • WEIGHT
    The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it. Atomic weight. See under Atomic, and cf. Element. -- Dead weight, Feather weight, Heavy weight, Light weight, etc. See under Dead, Feather, etc. -- Weight of
  • WEIGHTY
    1. Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body. 2. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous. "For sundry weighty reasons." Shak. Let me have your advice in a weighty affair. Swift.
  • BALANCEABLE
    Such as can be balanced.
  • BALANCER
    In Diptera, the rudimentary posterior wing. (more info) 1. One who balances, or uses a balance.
  • BALANCE
    A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary). The constellation Libra. The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September. 8. A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i.,
  • BALANCEREEF
    The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship.
  • EQUAL
    Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; -- opposed to mixed. (more info) 1. Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied
  • WEIGHTLESS
    Having no weight; imponderable; hence, light. Shak.
  • SIDESMAN
    1. A party man; a partisan. Milton. 2. An assistant to the churchwarden; a questman.
  • EQUIPOISE
    1. Equality of weight or force; hence, equilibrium; a state in which the two ends or sides of a thing are balanced, and hence equal; state of being equally balanced; -- said of moral, political, or social interests or forces. The means
  • SPENSERIAN
    Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faƫrie Queene."
  • EQUALIZATION
    The act of equalizing, or state of being equalized. Their equalization with the rest of their fellow subjects. Burke.
  • EQUALITARIAN
    One who believes in equalizing the condition of men; a leveler.
  • COUNTER WEIGHT
    A counterpoise.
  • UNEQUALABLE
    Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle.
  • INEQUALITY
    An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity;
  • WELTERWEIGHT
    1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that
  • DISPENSER
    One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
  • UNEQUALNESS
    The quality or state of being unequal; inequality; unevenness. Jer. Taylor.
  • SUBEQUAL
    Nearly equal.
  • COUNTERBALANCE
    To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance. The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the mercurial cylinder. Boyle. The cstudy of mind is necessary
  • IRONSIDES
    A cuirassier or cuirassiers; also, hardy veteran soldiers; -- applied specifically to Cromwell's cavalry.
  • OVERBALANCE
    1. To exceed equality with; to outweigh. Locke. 2. To cause to lose balance or equilibrium.
  • COEQUALITY
    The state of being on an equality, as in rank or power.

 

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