A graceful and elegant bearing in a person. Her poise on stage was admired by everyone in the audience.
Composure and dignity of manner. Despite the chaos around him, he maintained his poise and handled the situation calmly.
The tightrope walker demonstrated incredible poise as he crossed the wire.
A unit of dynamic viscosity in the centimetre–gram–second system of units, equal to 0.1 pascal-second. At 20 °C, glycerin has a viscosity of about 14 poise.