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Peise vs Pwise - What's the difference?

peise | pwise |

As a verb peise

is to weigh or measure the weight of; to poise.

As a noun peise

is a weight; a poise.

peise

English

Verb

  • To weigh or measure the weight of; to poise.
  • (figuratively) To weigh or take the measure of (an immaterial object).

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A weight; a poise.
  • (obsolete) A heavy blow, an impact.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
  • *:Great Ptolomæe it for his lemans sake / Ybuilded all of glasse, by Magicke powre, / And also it impregnable did make; / Yet when his loue was false, he with a peaze it brake.

    • Quotations

    * "To weigh pence with a peise." -

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary *

    pwise

    English

    ===(en)=== (en-abbr)
  • (knitting) purlwise

    • See also

    * kwise