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Meaning of poised


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  poised
      adj 1: marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for
             action; "a gull in poised flight"; "George's poised
             hammer"
      2: in full control of your faculties; "the witness remained
         collected throughout the cross-examination"; "perfectly
         poised and sure of himself"; "more self-contained and more
         dependable than many of the early frontiersmen"; "strong and
         self-possessed in the face of trouble" [syn: {collected},
         {equanimous}, {poised}, {self-collected}, {self-contained},
         {self-possessed}]


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