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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who poises or weighs; a weigher.
- noun That which poises or balances; specifically, in entomology, the halter or balancer of a dipterous insect or a male coceid. See cut under
halter .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The balancer of dipterous insects.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
balancer ofdipterous insects .
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