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Word Meanings - PONDERATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of weighing. Arbuthnot.

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  • WEIGHTINESS
    The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
  • WEIGHTILY
    In a weighty manner.
  • WEIGHMASTER
    One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.
  • WEIGHER
    One who weighs; specifically, an officer whose duty it is to weigh commodities.
  • WEIGH-HOUSE
    A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed.
  • WEIGHT
    The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it. Atomic weight. See under Atomic, and cf. Element. -- Dead weight, Feather weight, Heavy weight, Light weight, etc. See under Dead, Feather, etc. -- Weight of
  • WEIGHTY
    1. Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body. 2. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous. "For sundry weighty reasons." Shak. Let me have your advice in a weighty affair. Swift.
  • WEIGHBOARD
    Clay intersecting a vein. Weale.
  • WEIGHABLE
    Capable of being weighed.
  • WEIGHBRIDGE
    A weighing machine on which loaded carts may be weighed; platform scales.
  • WEIGH
    A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh. An expedition was got under weigh from New York. Thackeray. The Athenians . . . hurried on board and with considerable difficulty got under weigh. Jowett .
  • WEIGHTLESS
    Having no weight; imponderable; hence, light. Shak.
  • WEIGHLOCK
    A lock, as on a canal, in which boats are weighed and their tonnage is settled.
  • WEIGHING
    a. & n. from Weigh, v. Weighing cage, a cage in which small living animals may be conveniently weighed. -- Weighing house. See Weigh-house. -- Weighing machine, any large machine or apparatus for weighing; especially, platform scales arranged for
  • WEIGHBEAM
    A kind of large steelyard for weighing merchandise; -- also called weighmaster's beam.
  • WEIGHAGE
    A duty or toil paid for weighing merchandise. Bouvier.
  • COUNTER WEIGHT
    A counterpoise.
  • WELTERWEIGHT
    1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that
  • AWEIGH
    Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor. Totten.
  • UNWEIGHING
    Not weighing or pondering; inconsiderate. Shak.
  • MAKEWEIGHT
    That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
  • LIGHTWEIGHT
    In boxing, wrestling, etc., one weighingnot more than 133 pounds
  • COUNTERWEIGH
    To weigh against; to counterbalance.
  • BUTTERWEIGHT
    Over weight. Swift. Note: Formerly it was a custom to give 18 ounces of butter for a pound.
  • DOWNWEIGH
    To weigh or press down. A different sin downweighs them to the bottom. Longfellow.

 

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