poisure
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English
Etymology
See poise.
Noun
poisure
- (obsolete) weight
- c. 1614, John Fletcher, “Wit Without Money, a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies , London: Humphrey Robinson, , and for Humphrey Moseley , published 1679, →OCLC, Act I, scene i:
- But, sir, know, No man that I am allied to, in my living, But makes it equal, whether his own use Or my necessity pull first; nor is this forc'd, But the mere quality and poisure of goodness: […]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “poisure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)