Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Weight; poise.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Weight.
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- noun obsolete
weight
Etymologies
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See poise.
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Examples
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Sir, know, no man that I am allied to, in my living, but makes it equal, whether his own use, or my necessity pull first, nor is this forc'd, but the meer quality and poisure of goodness, and do you think I venture nothing equal?
Wit Without Money The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Francis Beaumont 1600
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