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n. [ F. équipage, fr. équiper. See Equip. ] 1. Furniture or outfit, whether useful or ornamental; especially, the furniture and supplies of a vessel, fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the furniture and necessaries of an army, a body of troops, or a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire. [ 1913 Webster ]

Did their exercises on horseback with noble equipage. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

First strip off all her equipage of Pride. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Retinue; train; suite. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A carriage of state or of pleasure with all that accompanies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a showy turn-out. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rumbling equipages of fashion . . . were unknown in the settlement of New Amsterdam. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with equipage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Well dressed, well bred.
Well equipaged, is ticket good enough. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>a. [ L. aequiparabilis. ] Comparable. [ Obs. or R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>v. t. [ L. aequiparatus, p. p. of aequiparare. ] To compare. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Equi- + L. pes, pedis, foot. ] (Zoöl.) Equal-footed; having the pairs of feet equal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Equi- + pendency. ] The act or condition of hanging in equipoise; not inclined or determined either way. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Equi- + pensatus, p. p. of pensare to weigh. Cf. Equipoise. ] To weigh equally; to esteem alike. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. équipement. See Equip. ] 1. The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

The equipment of the fleet was hastened by De Witt. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc. ; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments. [ 1913 Webster ]

Armed and dight,
In the equipments of a knight. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Equi- + poise. ] 1. Equality of weight or force; hence, equilibrium; a state in which the two ends or sides of a thing are balanced, and hence equal; state of being equally balanced; -- said of moral, political, or social interests or forces. [ 1913 Webster ]

The means of preserving the equipoise and the tranquillity of the commonwealth. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our little lives are kept in equipoise
By opposite attractions and desires. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Counterpoise. [ 1913 Webster ]

The equipoise to the clergy being removed. Buckle.

{ , n. [ Cf. F. équipollence. See Equipollent. ] 1. Equality of power, force, signification, or application. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Logic) Sameness of signification of two or more propositions which differ in language. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. aequipollens; aequus equal + pollens, -entis, p. pr. of pollere to be strong, able: cf. F. équipollent. ] 1. Having equal power or force; equivalent. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Logic) Having equivalent signification and reach; expressing the same thing, but differently. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With equal power. Barrow.

{ , n. [ Equi- + ponderance: cf. F. équipondérance. ] Equality of weight; equipoise. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. équipondérant. ] Being of the same weight. [ 1913 Webster ]

A column of air . . . equiponderant to a column of quicksilver. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Equi- + L. ponderare to weigh. See Ponderate. ] To be equal in weight; to weigh as much as another thing. Bp. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make equal in weight; to counterbalance. “More than equiponderated the declension in that direction.” De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Equi- + L. pondus, ponderis, weight. ] Having equal weight. Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. aequipondium an equal weight; aequus equal + pondus weight. ] Of equal weight on both sides; balanced. [ Obs. ] Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Equi- + potential. ] (Mech. & Physics) Having the same potential. [ 1913 Webster ]

Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential. [ 1913 Webster ]