Balance: alternatives and connections

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

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

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

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

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A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

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One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form.

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To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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To support or sustain; to hold up.

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To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.

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To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.

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Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.

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The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

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The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a difference of quali…

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One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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The condition or quality of being equal; agreement in quantity or degree as compared; likeness in bulk, value, rank, properties, etc.; as, the equali…

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Equality of weight or force; an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual counteraction of two or more forces.

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imp. & p. p. of Fight.

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The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp.,…

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One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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The act of placing, or the state of being placed.

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That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.

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Anything that remains, or is left, after the separation and removal of a part; residue; remnant.

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The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when ap…

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The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

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The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially wh…

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A circular frame turning about an axis; a rotating disk, whether solid, or a frame composed of an outer rim, spokes or radii, and a central hub or na…

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One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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State of being bilateral.

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The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.

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The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, th…

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The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.

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Remaining; yet left.

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A form of balance in which the body to be weighed is suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a fulcrum, and a counterpoise is cause…

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A due proportion of the several parts of a body to each other; adaptation of the form or dimensions of the several parts of a thing to each other; th…

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Tore.

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The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the m…

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To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.

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To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a…

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That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.

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Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; a…

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To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.

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To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to co…

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To play tricks by sleight of hand; to cause amusement and sport by tricks of skill; to conjure.

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In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something

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To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.

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One who balances, or uses a balance.

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One who balances, or uses a balance.

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One who halts or limps; a cripple.

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One who halts or limps; a cripple.

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

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

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To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtract…

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To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtract…

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Anything that remains, or is left, after the separation and removal of a part; residue; remnant.

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Anything that remains, or is left, after the separation and removal of a part; residue; remnant.

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Involving or exhibiting symmetry; proportional in parts; having its parts in due proportion as to dimensions; as, a symmetrical body or building.

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Involving or exhibiting symmetry; proportional in parts; having its parts in due proportion as to dimensions; as, a symmetrical body or building.

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To make proportional in its parts; to reduce to symmetry.

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To make proportional in its parts; to reduce to symmetry.

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A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

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of Account

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A servant who called out the hours.

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A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece.

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A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.

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A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock; -- often called simply a balance.

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Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters.

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To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.

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To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.

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One who, or that which, equalizes anything.

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

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Equality of weight or force; an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual counteraction of two or more forces.

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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 equa…

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The Balance; the seventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the autumnal equinox in September, marked thus / in almanacs, etc.

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

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The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, th…

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The state of being in proportion.

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Anything that remains, or is left, after the separation and removal of a part; residue; remnant.

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Pertaining to a residue; remaining after a part is taken.

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That which remains after a part is taken, separated, removed, or designated; remnant; remainder.

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That which is left after any process of separation or purification; that which remains after certain specified deductions are made; residue.

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To arrest.

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A due proportion of the several parts of a body to each other; adaptation of the form or dimensions of the several parts of a thing to each other; th…

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Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. want of bilateral symmetry.

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Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. want of bilateral symmetry.

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