to straighten one's affairs, or an account

The professor pulled a dusty old tome from the bookshelf.

It’s designed to apply the natural laws of foot motion to pain-racked feet. … Order today and say goodbye forever to sore, tired, pain-racked feet!

Neither a jot inclin’d to either hand: But place the smallest grain of weight in one, Straight the fraternal equipoise is gone; The loaded scale, preponderant, downward flies, Drags down the chain, and makes it’s [sic] partner rise.