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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
peise .
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Examples
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Meall and Disnege, that the grease of one being weighed hath peised very near six or seven ounces.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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As for our conies, I have seen them so fat in some soils, especially about Meall and Disnege, that the grease of one being weighed hath peised very near six or seven ounces.
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He peised the envelope in his hand for a moment, then broke the seal very deliberately, took out the coins, and, as if weighing them in his palm, turned back to the table and laid Mrs. Stimcoe's letter close under the lamp while he searched for his gold-rimmed spectacles.
Poison Island Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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