BPage 18
- English Word Balance Definition To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope.
- English Word Balance Definition To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize.
- English Word Balance Definition To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.
- English Word Balance Definition To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them.
- English Word Balance Definition To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal; -- said of an item; as, this payment, or credit, balances the account.
- English Word Balance Definition To arrange accounts in such a way that the sum total of the debits is equal to the sum total of the credits; as, to balance a set of books.
- English Word Balance Definition To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to balance partners.
- English Word Balance Definition To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail.
- English Word Balance Definition To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance.
- English Word Balance Definition To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force; to waver; to hesitate.
- English Word Balance Definition To move toward a person or couple, and then back.
- English Word Balance wheel Definition A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock; -- often called simply a balance.
- English Word Balance wheel Definition A ratchet-shaped scape wheel, which in some watches is acted upon by the axis of the balance wheel proper (in those watches called a balance).
- English Word Balance wheel Definition A wheel which imparts regularity to the movements of any engine or machine; a fly wheel.
- English Word Balanceable Definition Such as can be balanced.
- English Word Balanced Definition of Balance
- English Word Balancement Definition The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces.
- English Word Balancer Definition One who balances, or uses a balance.
- English Word Balancer Definition In Diptera, the rudimentary posterior wing.
- English Word Balancereef Definition The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship.
- English Word Balancing Definition of Balance
- English Word Balaniferous Definition Bearing or producing acorns.
- English Word Balanite Definition A fossil balanoid shell.
- English Word Balanoglossus Definition A peculiar marine worm. See Enteropneusta, and Tornaria.
- English Word Balanoid Definition Resembling an acorn; -- applied to a group of barnacles having shells shaped like acorns. See Acornshell, and Barnacle.
- English Word Balas ruby Definition A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. See Spinel.
- English Word Balaustine Definition The pomegranate tree (Punica granatum). The bark of the root, the rind of the fruit, and the flowers are used medicinally.
- English Word Balbucinate Definition To stammer.
- English Word Balbutiate Definition Alt. of Balbucinate
- English Word Balbuties Definition The defect of stammering; also, a kind of incomplete pronunciation.