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We found 49 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word poise: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "poise" is defined. General (34 matching dictionaries) poise, poise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] poise: Collins English Dictionary [home, info] poise: Vocabulary.com [home, info] poise, poise: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info] poise: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info] Poise, poise: Wordnik [home, info] poise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info] Poise: Wiktionary [home, info] poise, poise: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info] poise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info] poise: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info] poise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info] poise: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info] poise: Dictionary.com [home, info] poise (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info] poise: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info] poise: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info] Poise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info] Poise: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info] poise: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info] poise: Rhymezone [home, info] poise: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info] poise: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info] poise: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info] poise: Free Dictionary [home, info] poise: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info] poise: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info] poise: Luciferous Logolepsy [home, info] poise: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info] poise: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info] poise: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info] poise: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info] Art (1 matching dictionary) POISE: Shakespeare Glossary [home, info] Business (2 matching dictionaries) Poise: Construction Term Glossary [home, info] poise: Legal dictionary [home, info] Computing (1 matching dictionary) poise: Encyclopedia [home, info] Medicine (2 matching dictionaries) poise: online medical dictionary [home, info] poise: Medical dictionary [home, info] Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries) POISE: Acronym Finder [home, info] poise: Idioms [home, info] Science (3 matching dictionaries) Poise: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics [home, info] poise: General Chemistry Online [home, info] poise (P, Ps, or Po): How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement [home, info] Tech (4 matching dictionaries) poise: Glossary of Meteorology [home, info] Poise: National Glass Association Glossary [home, info] Poise (absolute viscosity): Oil Analysis [home, info] poise: Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary [home, info]

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (poise) ▸ noun:  a cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter; the viscosity of a fluid in which a force of one dyne per square centimeter maintains a velocity of 1 centimeter per second ▸ noun:  a state of being balanced in a stable equilibrium ▸ noun:  great coolness and composure under strain ▸ verb:  hold or carry in equilibrium ▸ verb:  cause to be balanced or suspended ▸ verb:  be motionless, in suspension ("The bird poised for a few moments before it attacked") ▸ verb:  prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult ▸ Word origin