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From 中期英語 peysen, from Anglo-Norman peiser, peser and Middle French peser, from Latin pēnsāre (literally “weigh”). Doublet of poise.

peise (third-person singular simple present peises, present participle peising, simple past and past participle peised)

(obsolete) To weigh or measure the weight of; to poise.
(obsolete, figuratively) To weigh or take the measure of (an immaterial object).
(obsolete, figuratively) To weigh down, retard
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
  
  I speak too long; but 'tis to peise the time,
  To eke it, and to draw it out in length, […]

peise (plural peises)

(obsolete, dialectal, UK) A weight; a poise.
- c. 1378-9, [William Langland], “(please specify the passus number)”, in The Vision of Pierce Plowman [...] (Cr, B-text), London: […] Roberte Crowley, […], published 1550, →OCLC:
  
  To weigh pence with a peise.
  
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(obsolete) A heavy blow, an impact.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  
  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.