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2. Thou continent of wealth, whose want of store, For that it could not peize th' unequal scale Of avarice, giv'st matter to my moan! Middle ton, Family of Love, ii. 4. Be it the weightiest and most rich affair That ever was included in your breast, My faith shall poise it. B. Jonson, Case is Altered, i. 2. 3. To balance; make of equal weight; hold or place in equilibrium: as, to poise the scales of a balance. Moderatly exercise your body with some labour, or playeng at the tennys, or castyng a bowle, or paysyng weyghtes or plommettes of leede in your handes, or some other thyng, to open your poores, & to augment naturall heate. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 247. The just skale of even, paized thoughts. Marston , What you Will, Prol. The world, who of itself is peised well, Made to run even upon even ground. Shak ., K. John, ii. 1. 575. Chaos wild Reign'd where these heavens now roll, where earth now rests Upon her centre poised . Milton , P. L., v. 579. The falcon, poised on soaring wing, Watches the wild-duck by the spring.