Synonyms:
poised
Meaning: marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action; "a gull in poised flight"; "George's poised hammer"
Usage examples
Her right hand held the pen poised over the paper.
Cassandra rose and stood suddenly poised for flight.
Lithe and poised, he was the epitome of leashed and controlled action.
And a dignity entered into me, and my neck was stiffened, my head poised.
He poised himself, as if it were, on the monolithic stability of his legs.
It poised for an instant above the child's fair head--then turned to fall.
Jim saw him now, a figure poised upon a platform behind the arms, his own arms raised heavenward.
The next instant, the figure poised itself on the coping of the wall and then plunged forward out of sight.
On her head, as proudly poised as Mrs. McLane's, was a blue velvet hat, higher in the crown than the prevailing fashion, rolled up on one side and trimmed only with a drooping gray feather.
A man of good stature, broad at the shoulders, slender at the hips, he poised himself with athletic grace--the lower part of his face masked by what Lanyard took to be a dark silk handkerchief.