peise, peize, pease, peaze or peyse /pāz or pēz/ (obsolete)

1. Weight
2. A weight
3. A balance
4. A blow (Spenser)

1. To balance (Spenser, Shakespeare)
2. To poise (Spenser)
3. To put weights on, weigh down (Shakespeare)

To press or settle downwards

• dead-ropes
• deads
• Dead Sea apple
• Dead Sea fruit
• dead set
• dead-set
• dead set against
• dead-sets
• dead shot
• dead shots
• dead's part
• dead spit
• dead spits
• deadstock
• deadstocks
• deadstroke
• dead thraw
• dead to the world
• dead tree edition
• dead tree editions
• dead-wall
• dead-walls
• dead-water
• dead-weight
• dead white European male