The upright serves as a guide to this counterpoise. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881] Reference
Prester John of a counterpoise to the Mohammedan power. From Wordnik.com. [The Isle Of Pines (1668) and An Essay in Bibliography by Worthington Chauncey Ford] Reference
An equally abortive attempt to create a counterpoise to. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
The Plains differ radically from their western counterpoise. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
It is Scalia's presence that most cries out for counterpoise. From Wordnik.com. [Why The Court Needs A Liberal] Reference
Weigh a 2-litre flask and note the weight -- or counterpoise exactly. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
A counterpoise to all such and similar influences can but be desired. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why?] Reference
An extremely useful counterpoise is a small sheet-brass cylinder about. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
No effective counterpoise to his power was apparent within the Empire. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
Place flask and funnel on one pan of the scales, and counterpoise accurately. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
If all the elements needed are not furnished there can be no true counterpoise. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
Adapter UG-1441 -- red for radiating element and black for counterpoise (ground). From Wordnik.com. [FM 44-48 Appendix F - Communications Planning and Troubleshooting]
The specific gravity is then found as follows: First, counterpoise the counterweight. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference
A small piece of lead forms the counterpoise of the fan, which is thus completely balanced. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887] Reference
The idea was not unreasonable: to forge a common European front as a counterpoise to Washington. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Splits] Reference
C by means of the counterpoise D, which is insufficient to tilt it after the speculum is poured. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
Place the flask containing 200 c.c. sterile broth on one pan of the scales and counterpoise accurately. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
I shall be the first to welcome it whenever international efforts succeed in creating such a counterpoise. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why?] Reference
L, articulated at O, and supporting a tube, TT ', and the whole movable part balanced by a counterpoise, P. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882] Reference
But not even Epaminondas could make of Arcadia a first-class power, and a sufficient counterpoise to Sparta. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862] Reference
A difficulty arose in adjusting the balance, when Mr. Atherstone suggested throwing a Fiddle in as a counterpoise. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
As a counterpoise to this piece of information, we will mention what a worthy contractor once said to us about Mr. Hunt. From Wordnik.com. [The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890] Reference
States was but a counterpoise of the personal liberty bills and other measures of antagonism to slave-holding at the North. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
It is an important counterpoise to the hardening and fossilization which repeated habitual actions bring about in the nervous system. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
The developing is made of sheet iron with a door sliding up and down, it being balanced by a counterpoise, and provided with a chimney. From Wordnik.com. [Photographic Reproduction Processes] Reference
Union until slavery had a counterpoise, or balance adjusted in the form of slave State, to preserve the balance against freedom in the National. From Wordnik.com. [The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details] Reference
Moreover, each of the four chains is prolonged beneath the corresponding counterpoise by a chain of the same weight, called a compensating chain. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885] Reference
At the other extremity it is provided with a counterpoise which permits of its being exactly balanced, while not interfering with its sensitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884] Reference
Like Noah Baumbach, Holofcener is a counterpoise to formulaic studio films, a highly stylized naturalist bringing us bulletins from the 21st century. From Wordnik.com. [Erica Abeel: INDIE STALWARTS AND NEW TALENT AT TRIBECA] Reference
When the sealed ends are cold and the blood has clotted, place the pipette on the centrifuge, clean end downward; counterpoise and centrifugalise thoroughly. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
As a partial counterpoise to its many advantages, Canada is exposed to extremes of temperature, alternating between heat nearly tropical, and cold approaching polar. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation] Reference
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