Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
poise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A weight; a poise.
- transitive verb obsolete To poise or weigh.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
weigh or measure theweight of; topoise . - verb figuratively To weigh or take the measure of (an
immaterial object). - noun A weight; a poise.
- noun obsolete A heavy
blow , animpact .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Gray Freiris, (a silver peise of James Carmichaell [682] was laid in pledge:) It was fast fixed with irne nailles upon a barrow, called thare fertour.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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I have had a belly full of apples to day on the steam boat, there was a barl of on the boat for the [unclear: suttlers] and the end of the barl was open and I eat as many as I could eat. the [unclear: suttler] sells the aples for five sents a peise.
Franklin County: Josiah Bloss to His Sister, April 30, 1863 Josiah Bloss 1863
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And peise their deedes with weight of heauie leade,
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Scripture, mensioun is maad of orologis, schewing the houris of the dai bi the schadew maad bi the sunne in a cercle, certis nevere, save in late daies, was eny clok telling the houris of the dai and nyht bi peise and bi stroke; and open it is that noughwhere in holi scripture is expresse mensioun made of eny suche. "
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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