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 Faërie 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.