1. poised - Adjective
2. poised - Verb
4. poised - Adjective Satellite
of Poise
Source: Webster's dictionaryHe is forever poised between a clich. Harold Macmillan
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him. Franklin D. Roosevelt
More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care. Richard Neal
Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests - put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again. PZ Myers
The rights of all are equal: justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and caste: No race, no color, no previous condition, can change the rights of men. Robert G. Ingersoll
In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self. Ramana Maharshi