قاموس اللغة الإنجليزية

A duty or toil paid for weighing merchandise.

A kind of large steelyard for weighing merchandise; -- also called weighmaster's beam.

Clay intersecting a vein.

A weighing machine on which loaded carts may be weighed; platform scales.

of Weigh

One who weighs; specifically, an officer whose duty it is to weigh commodities.

of Weigh

a. & n. from Weigh, v.

A lock, as on a canal, in which boats are weighed and their tonnage is settled.

One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.

The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain units or standards, as pounds, grams, etc.

The quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated by the balance, or expressed numerically with reference to some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds.

Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business.

Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight.

A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight.

A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight.

A definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce weight.

The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.

To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle.

To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight.