payse
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peɪz/
Verb
payse (third-person singular simple present payses, present participle paysing, simple past and past participle paysed)
- (obsolete) To poise.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Ne was it Island then, ne was it paysd
Amid the ocean
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “payse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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