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| balance | (N.) | An apparatus for weighing. |   '  ,  | | balance | (N.) | Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate. | ', | | balance | (N.) | Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales. | ', | | balance | (N.) | The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness. | ', | | balance | (N.) | An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account. | ', | | balance | (N.) | A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary). | ', | | balance | (N.) | The constellation Libra. | ', | | balance | (N.) | The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September. | ', | | balance | (N.) | A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i., S. | ', | | balance | (N.) | To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance. | ', | |
| balance | (N.) | 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. | ', | | balance | (N.) | To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize. | ', | | balance | (N.) | To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate. | ', | | balance | (N.) | To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them. | ', | | balance | (N.) | 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. | ', | | balance | (N.) | 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. | ', | | balance | (N.) | To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to balance partners. | ', | | balance | (N.) | To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail. | ', | | balance | (V. I.) | To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance. | ', | | balance | (V. I.) | To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force; to waver; to hesitate. | ', | |
| balance | (V. I.) | To move toward a person or couple, and then back. | ', | | sheet | (V. T.) | In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies. |    ' | | sheet | (V. T.) | A broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body. | ' | | sheet | (V. T.) | A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc. | ' | | sheet | (V. T.) | A single signature of a book or a pamphlet; | ' | | sheet | (V. T.) | the book itself. | ' | | sheet | (V. T.) | A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf. | ' | | sheet | (V. T.) | A broad expanse of water, or the like. | ' | | sheet | (V. T.) | A sail. | ' | | sheet | (V. T.) | An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata. | ' | |
| sheet | (V. T.) | A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; -- usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom. | ' | | sheet | (V. T.) | The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets. | ' | | sheet | (V. T.) | To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet. | ' | | sheet | (V. T.) | To expand, as a sheet. | ' |
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