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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Equalize \E"qual*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Equalized}; p. pr &
vb n. {Equalizing}.] [Cf. F. ['e]galiser.]
1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like in
amount or degree as compared; as to equalize accounts,
burdens, or taxes.
One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty
and the low --Wordsworth.
No system of instruction will completely equalize
natural powers. --Whately.
2. To pronounce equal; to compare as equal.
Which we equalize, and perhaps would willingly
prefer to the Iliad. --Orrery.
3. To be equal to equal; to match. [Obs.]
It could not equalize the hundredth part Of what her
eyes have kindled in my heart. --Waller.
{Equalizing bar} (Railroad Mach.), a lever connecting two
axle boxes, or two springs in a car truck or locomotive,
to equalize the pressure on the axles.
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