BAL'ANCING, participle present tense Charging with equal weights; being in a state of equipoise; bringing to a state of equality; regulating respective forces or sums to make them equal; settling; adjusting; paying a difference of accounts; hesitating; contracting a sail by rolling up one corner of it. BAL'ANCING, noun Equilibrium; poise.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI