counterpoise

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From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2010

Fourthly, Instead of the scales, the Buble may be hung at one end of the Beam, and only a Counterpoise to it at the other, that the Beam may not be burthen'd with unnecessary weight.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry

I have found by Experiment, that the Learning of a Beau, and the Wit of a Pedant are a just Counterpoise to each other.

From The Toy Shop (1735) The King and the Miller of Mansfield (1737) by Dodsley, Robert