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Paise vs Peise - What's the difference?

paise | peise |

As nouns the difference between paise and peise

is that paise is land, country while peise is a weight; a poise.

As a verb peise is

to weigh or measure the weight of; to poise.

paise

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(head)

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
    • (Chapman)
    (Webster 1913)

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    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 *