poise sb. (1 the literal sense does not occur)
1.
weight (fig.) Meas. II. iv.
69,
3H6 II. v. 13
“the equal of this fell
war”
(=equipoise, balance),
Lr. II. i. 122
“Occasions . . . of some
poise”
(Qq2 3 Ff
“prize”), Oth. III. iii. 82.
2.
heavy fall Troil. I. iii. 207*.
