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