balance (1 cf. ‘a pair of ballance’, Fuller 1655; 2 and 3 are not pre-S.)
1.
used as pl.
Mer.V. IV. i. 255
“Are there here?”
2.
scale-pan of a
balance (fig.) R2 III. iv.
87.
3.
fig. counterpoise,
something of equal value
All'sW. II. iii. 183
“to thy estate A more
replete.”
