Poising is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for POISING in dictionary:

VERB:
• POISE, to hold in a state of equilibrium
• be or cause to be balanced or suspended
• be ready and prepared to do something
NOUN:
• graceful and elegant bearing in a person
• composure and dignity of manner
• balance; equilibrium
• a unit of dynamic viscosity, such that a tangential force of one dyne per square centimetre causes a velocity change one centimetre per second between two parallel planes separated by one centimetre in a liquid.

Words related to POISING

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Words that contain POISING

mispoising15 porpoising15 equipoising23 overpoising17 counterpoising19

How to use POISING in a sentence

• Poising himself, he opens the door with a swift movement, fires, flings the door to again, and rushes away.
• Then the stanch craft would be lifted up and, poising on the crests, would slide down a watery hill with a sickening feeling, present at least in the hearts of Bob and Mr.
• Murdstone poising a cane in the air, which he had obtained, it seemed, for the purpose of flogging me for any mistake I might make.
• Not a word did either of them say, but the soldier took two quick steps forward and struck at the headsman while he was still poising himself for a blow at the victim.
• He seemed to be poising it above his head, as though it were a correct attitude in some sort of game.
• I uttered a cry of despair! Conseil took up his gun, and aimed at a savage who was poising his sling at ten yards from him.
• Meanwhile the sculptor wetted his pen and, poising it over the plans, regarded his drawings with half-closed eyes.
• Grimcke raised the spear, as if poising it aloft to hurl at the savage.
• Flying out at once to the point he indicated, and poising myself above it on my broad pinions at a giddy altitude, I saw at a glance that my friend was quite right.
• How still she lay, the beauty, still as a bird, poising on the sea.
• Danton was chatting gayly with her husband, and Rose, poising a dainty azure parasol, looked at the well-dressed Parisians around her.
• Resting on the right foot he draws back the left, poising on his toe, in an attitude of exquisite grace.
• Further, the whole group marked 2 corresponds in its linear formation, its rising, poising and curling, exactly to the preceding group, marked 1.
• After poising it for some time, and measuring with the eye the distance from the object to be thrown at, the spear is discharged, the throwing-stick remaining in the hand.
• Dick and Hi stepped nimbly to the edge of the raft, poising with hands pointed.
• BOOK I AWAKING I I remember poising naked upon a rock, ready to dive into Lake George.
• There was thus much that the viking lad had to learn beyond the art of wielding the battle-axe, poising the spear, and shooting an arrow straight to its mark.
• Sharpe, poising her glass and clapping her eye to it, one hand over the other, after the fashion of the sex.
• Poising the vessel delicately between thumb and forefinger, P.
• She was poising herself for her first flight, the bright and lovely Lady of the Sky.

Similar words containing POIS without suffix ing

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