peise
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 5
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Definition of peise
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (obsolete)To weigh or measure the weight of; to poise.
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verb
- (obsolete)To weigh or measure the weight of; to poise.
- (figuratively, obsolete)To weigh or take the measure of (an immaterial object).
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(figuratively, obsolete)To weigh down, retard
“I speak too long; but 'tis to peise the time, To eke it, and to draw it out in length, […]”
noun
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(UK, dialectal, obsolete)A weight; a poise.
“To weigh pence with a peise.”
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(obsolete)A heavy blow, an impact.
“Great Ptolomæe it for his lemans sake / Ybuilded all of glasse, by Magicke powre, / And also it impregnable did make; / Yet when his loue was false, he with a peaze it brake.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English peysen, from Anglo-Norman peiser, peser and Middle French peser, from Latin pēnsāre (literally “weigh”). Doublet of poise.
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