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- Soon the biggest of the boys poised himself, shot down into the water, and did not come up.†
- He saw them nose toward each other, poise motionless, make a dart forward, swerve off, and come around again.†
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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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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, poise is a technical word referencing a unit of dynamic viscosity.