Vocabulary : Poise to Poisoner
Poise : Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness. ;; The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed. ;; The state of being balanced by equal weight or power; equipoise; balance; equilibrium; rest. ;; That which causes a balance; a counterweight. ;; To balance; to make of equal weight; as, to poise the scales of a balance. ;; To hold or place in equilibrium or equiponderance. ;; To counterpoise; to counterbalance. ;; To ascertain, as by the balance; to weigh. ;; To weigh (down); to oppress. ;; To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt.Poised : of Poise
Poiser : The balancer of dipterous insects.
Poising : of Poise
Poison : Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases. ;; That which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as, the poison of evil example; the poison of sin. ;; To put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to poison an arrow; to poison food or drink. ;; To injure or kill by poison; to administer poison to. ;; To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons happiness; slander poisoned his mind. ;; To act as, or convey, a poison.
