Meaning of Poise | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A state of balance, equilibrium or stability.
   countable, uncountable
2. Unit of viscosity in the centimetre–gram–second system of units (CGS).
3. Composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation.
   countable, uncountable
4. Mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body.
   countable, uncountable
5. A condition of hovering, or being suspended.
   countable, uncountable
6. A CGS unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimetre.
   countable, uncountable
7. Weight; an amount of weight, the amount something weighs.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
8. The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed.
   countable, uncountable
9. That which causes a balance; a counterweight.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“plants and animals, which are all made up of and nourished by water, and perhaps never return to water again, do not keep things at a poise”

“Letterpress and offset gloss varnishes normally have viscosities varying from 50 to 250 poises; they must stain the paper as little as possible, have insufficient tack to cause plucking, […]”

“as an huge rockie clift, / Whose false foundation waues haue washt away, / With dreadfull poyse is from the mayneland rift, / […] So downe he fell […]”

“As for Hyperboles, I will neither quote Lucan, nor Statius, Men of an unbounded imagination, but who often wanted the Poyze of Judgement.”

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