Unbalance v.

[UN-² 3.]

  † 1.  trans. = UNBALLAST v. 1. Obs.^–1 (Cf. BALANCE v. 17.)

1586.  B. Young, Guazzo’s Civ. Conv., IV. 193 b. He … without anie more wordes unballanced [It. votò] the ship.

  2.  To throw (a person or thing) off the balance.

1856.  Ruskin, Mod. Paint., III. IV. xii. § 10. His ways are stedfast; it is not this or that new sight which will at once unbalance him.

1892.  Pall Mall G., 21 Jan., 3/2. Alcohol … disturbs and unbalances the nervous system.

  Hence Unbalancing vbl. sb.

1889.  Pop. Sci. Monthly, July, 368. A further unbalancing of the relations between the railroad companies and the public.