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

• precepting
• preceptive
• preceptor
• preceptorial
• preceptories
• preceptors
• preceptorship
• preceptorships
• preceptory
• preceptress
• preceptresses
• precepts
• preces
• precess
• precessed
• precesses
• precessing
• precession
• precessional
• precession of the equinoxes
• precessions
• prechristian
• pre-Christian
• precinct
• precincts