peise means A weight; a poise. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
peise is pronounced /peɪz/.
Etymology
From Middle English peysen, from Anglo-Norman peiser, peser and Middle French peser, from Latin pēnsāre (literally “weigh”). Doublet of poise.
noun
- A weight; a poise.“To weigh pence with a peise.”
- A heavy blow, an impact.“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.”
verb
- To weigh or measure the weight of; to poise.
- To weigh or take the measure of (an immaterial object).
- To weigh down, retard“I speak too long; but 'tis to peise the time,
To eke it, and to draw it out in length, […]”