poise

A state of balance, equilibrium or stability.

plants and animals, which are all made up of and nourished by water, and perhaps never return to water again, do not keep things at a poise

Composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation.

Mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body.

A condition of hovering, or being suspended.

A CGS unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimetre.

Letterpress and offset gloss varnishes normally have viscosities varying from 50 to 250 poises; they must stain the paper as little as possible, have insufficient tack to cause plucking, […]

To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt.

The slender, graceful spars / Poise aloft in the air.

To counterpoise; to counterbalance.

one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality

1699, John Dryden, Epistle to John Dryden to poise with solid sense a sprightly wit

To be of a given weight; to weigh.

To add weight to, to weigh down.

Every man poiseth [translating poise] upon his fellowes sinne, and elevates his owne.

To hold (something) with or against something else in equilibrium; to balance, counterpose.

you saw her faire none els being by, / Her selfe poysd with her selfe in either eye.

Unit of viscosity in the centimetre–gram–second system of units (CGS).