Noun : to show poise in company. ,intellectual poise. ,the poise of the tides. ,the poise of a bird in the air. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to poise a spear. ,She walked, carefully poising a water jug on her head. From Dictionary.com.
The viscosity of water at room temperature is about 0.01 poises. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference
“The hawk poises herself”: Richards, Portal of Hungerford, pp. From Wordnik.com. [Human Smoke] Reference
That may seem incongruous as Congress poises to pass legislation this week t. From Wordnik.com. [Howard Wolinsky and Alan Blum: FDA Regulation Provides Another Smokescreen for Marlboro Man] Reference
Over my left shoulder, in the green muck, poises a rather subdued water moccasin. From Wordnik.com. [Brief Encounter!] Reference
The pictures along our hallway captured my father's rigid poises, earnest and noble. From Wordnik.com. [Unspoken Bonds] Reference
Carolyn poises the question -- why is it that most chair umpires have foreign accents?. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Dub: As Seen At The Open] Reference
He tries this, swings it, poises it, and lays it by, with the knapsack, on a window – seat. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference
We wondered, as the U.S. poises itself for another war with Iraq, what about Afghanistan and its people?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 22, 2002] Reference
The hawk poises herself for a decisive swoop, and makes a brilliant cut at the fast disappearing quarry. From Wordnik.com. [Human Smoke] Reference
She poises her pen over her paper, wearing as inscrutably sweet an expression as she can possibly muster. From Wordnik.com. [Angels Carry the Sun excerpt: Chapter One, In the Woods] Reference
They set an arbitrary limit of 1013 poises above which they say it's a solid and below which it's a liquid. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference
It is the woman who poises her head well and who keeps her shoulders back that attracts the eye of other women. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
Unhappily for Nicholas, the peremptory poises of nature struck a line with him, and this was his line of flotation. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anerley] Reference
In my mind, though, the thing that poises DC far above the rest is their commitment to being an additive to retailers. From Wordnik.com. [Bryan Young: DC Comics Goes Digital] Reference
As he wavers Aeneas poises the deadly weapon, and, marking his chance, hurls it in from afar with all his strength of body. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Nietzsche, in his Thus spake Zarathustra, delineates three different poises as demonstrated by a camel, a lion, and a child. From Wordnik.com. [Camel, cat, cow, chameleon etc.] Reference
This ability poises the company to expand the video distribution business and capture an enormous market opportunity. â€. From Wordnik.com. [The First Video Ad for Joost] Reference
When suffering steels the heart, and poises the nature in an attitude of silent scorn for the worst affront of fortune, it is fatal. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy] Reference
He stands there with eyes closed, singing, transported, while the band poises quivering over great open-tuned deep blue gulfs of their own. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
The old lady, with a most affected air, poises, between her finger and thumb, a small tea-cup, with the beauties of which she appears to be highly enamoured. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
When close up he pauses for a second and poises his head for the toss. From Wordnik.com. [The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations] Reference
In certain lights, in certain poises of head it suggested tragic sorrow. From Wordnik.com. [Chance A Tale in Two Parts] Reference
By the time the baker poises the rolling pin above his head, you will have seen enough. From Wordnik.com. [Baltimore City Paper] Reference
He tries this, swings it, poises it, and lays it by, with the knapsack, on a window-seat. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference
He was roused, even thrilled by its poetry, and the perfect beauty of its poses, its poises. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Silence] Reference
To reveal yourself to yourself in a thousand lovely poses, and bird-like poises of the head. From Wordnik.com. [Prose Fancies] Reference
Now Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says that threat poises a challenge for the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2006] Reference
Ten miles farther on it once more poises itself on soaring wing, and directs its glance downward. From Wordnik.com. [The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea] Reference
"And the animal is, I think, a bird; a bright, soft-eyed bird, that flits and poises on tall grasses.". From Wordnik.com. [A Fountain Sealed] Reference
The whole heart is given; every note has wings, and rises and poises like an eagle in the heaven of sound. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O] Reference
Up in the air he poises pensively, hanging on hushed wings as though listening for sounds -- maybe a fish's. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Anecdotes] Reference
It will lay for a minute looking with indifference at its enemy, while he poises the fatal and unerring spear. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete] Reference
On its brink she hovered a moment with outstretched arms, as a sea gull poises on its weight -- then she called. From Wordnik.com. [Legends of Vancouver] Reference
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