Weights, counterpoising one another. --Sir K.
Digby.
2. To act against with equal power; to balance.
So many freeholders of English will be able to beard
and counterpoise the rest. --Spenser.
Fastening that to our exact balance, we put a
metalline counterpoise into the opposite scale.
--Boyle.
2. An equal power or force acting in opposition; a force
sufficient to balance another force.
The second nobles are a counterpoise to the higher
nobility, that they grow not too potent. --Bacon.
3. The relation of two weights or forces which balance each
other; equilibrium; equiponderance.
The pendulous round eart, with balanced air, In
counterpoise. --Milton.