graceful and elegant bearing in a person

poise and good deportment can be cultivated

balance; equilibrium

the balance has passed the point where the spring is in poise

be or cause to be balanced or suspended

he poised motionless on his toes

the world was poised between peace and war

a unit of dynamic viscosity, such that a tangential force of one dyne per square centimetre causes a velocity change one centimetre per second between two parallel planes separated by one centimetre in a liquid