Sekirov Dictionary

peise

/peɪz/

verb 3
noun 2
forms 3

verb3

(no longer used) To weigh or measure the weight of; to poise.
(figurative, no longer used) To weigh or take the measure of (an immaterial object).
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(figurative, no longer used) To weigh down, retard
- I speak too long; but 'tis to peise the time, To eke it, and to draw it out in length, […] — 1596

noun2

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(dialect, no longer used) A weight; a poise.
- To weigh pence with a peise. — 1550
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(no longer used) A heavy blow, an impact.
- Great Ptolomaee 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. — 1590

forms

peised · peising · peises

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