counterpoise

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From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2010

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

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