Word Meanings - WIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Weight.

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• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• WEIGHTILY
  In a weighty manner.
• 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.
• WEIGHTLESS
  Having no weight; imponderable; hence, light. Shak.
• 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
• 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
• BUTTERWEIGHT
  Over weight. Swift. Note: Formerly it was a custom to give 18 ounces of butter for a pound.
• PENNYWEIGHT
  A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth part of an ounce; as, a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic. It was anciently the weight of a silver penny, whence the name.
• CATCHWEIGHT
  Without any additional weight; without being handicapped; as, to ride catchweight.
• OVERWEIGHT
  1. Weight over and above what is required by law or custom. 2. Superabundance of weight; preponderance.
• HUNDREDWEIGHT
  A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds
• PAPERWEIGHT
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