All 3 Uses of
poise
in
Brave New World
- At eight hundred feet Henry slowed down the helicopter screws, and they hung for a minute or two poised above the fading landscape.
p. 72.9 *poised = suspended
- Like locusts they came, hung poised, descended all around him on the heather.
p. 255.1
- Yet another helicopter had arrived from across the Hog's Back, hung poised above the crowd, then dropped within a few yards of where the Savage was standing, in the open space between the line of sightseers and the lighthouse.
p. 257.0
Definitions:
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(1)
(poise) calm, confident, and in control—especially in movement, behavior, or when ready to act
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, poise is a technical word referencing a unit of dynamic viscosity.