Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
poise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To poise.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
poise .
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Examples
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It was not so great a distance to Domremy on the Meuse from Troyes on the Loire, and it appears that a little group of peasants, bolder than the rest, had come forth to hang about the road when the army passed and see what was so fine a sight, and perhaps to catch a glimpse of their/payse/, their little neighbour, the
Jeanne d'Arc Oliphant, Mrs. 1896
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Having obtained it, they set off at a good round pace, that would have been "throublesome to kape up," as Bryan remarked, "with payse in yer shoes!"
Ungava 1859
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If the CC and NPC is so great, draws the crowds and payse the salaries and covers RU administraiton costs - WHT HTEN ARE NZ AND SA IN THE AUPER 14/15.
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Frenche Cartes, for that when the carte leaning upon one side poincteth uppon them, because they bee ordinary crooked, they come then to bee straight, and to be able to sustayne strongly al the payse, where when the carte goeth even, and that they bee crooked, they sustayne it halfe: but let us tourne to our citie and Fortresse.
Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498
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_payse_, their little neighbour, the _commère_ who was godmother to
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