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Weigh   /weɪ/   Listen
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Weigh  v. t.  (past & past part. weighed; pres. part. weighing)  
1.
To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up; as, to weigh anchor. "Weigh the vessel up."
2.
To examine by the balance; to ascertain the weight of, that is, the force with which a thing tends to the center of the earth; to determine the heaviness, or quantity of matter of; as, to weigh sugar; to weigh gold. "Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting."
3.
To be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to have the heaviness of. "A body weighing divers ounces."
4.
To pay, allot, take, or give by weight. "They weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver."
5.
To examine or test as if by the balance; to ponder in the mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion; to estimate deliberately and maturely; to balance. "A young man not weighed in state affairs." "Had no better weighed The strength he was to cope with, or his own." "Regard not who it is which speaketh, but weigh only what is spoken." "In nice balance, truth with gold she weighs." "Without sufficiently weighing his expressions."
6.
To consider as worthy of notice; to regard. (Obs. or Archaic) "I weigh not you." "All that she so dear did weigh."
To weigh down.
(a)
To overbalance.
(b)
To oppress with weight; to overburden; to depress. "To weigh thy spirits down."


Weigh  v. i.  
1.
To have weight; to be heavy. "They only weigh the heavier."
2.
To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance. "Your vows to her and me... will even weigh." "This objection ought to weigh with those whose reading is designed for much talk and little knowledge."
3.
To bear heavily; to press hard. "Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart."
4.
To judge; to estimate. (R.) "Could not weigh of worthiness aright."
To weigh down, to sink by its own weight.


noun
Weigh  n.  (Naut.) A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh. "An expedition was got under weigh from New York." "The Athenians... hurried on board and with considerable difficulty got under weigh."


Weigh  n.  A certain quantity estimated by weight; an English measure of weight. See Wey.





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"Weigh" Quotes from Famous Books



... custom was in the old time that no young man should be allowed to take unto himself a wife till he had carried one such stone from the bed of the river where they are found, to the summit of the rock within the church walls. As these stones weigh between two and three hundredweight, and the ascent is very steep, it was a test of strength. The villagers were anxious to prevent the weaklings from marrying lest they should spoil the ...
— Round About the Carpathians • Andrew F. Crosse
... part that experiment plays in all forms of scientific progress. There is a general agreement that if there is to be an increase in the knowledge that men possess regarding the mechanical forces, the only sure way of gaining this knowledge is to weigh, measure, describe and classify. This applies to solids, liquids, gases, rocks, plants, animals, and even to the structure and function of the human body. But when it comes to social institutions, even the wisest hesitate and question. Is ...
— The Next Step - A Plan for Economic World Federation • Scott Nearing
... to fetch you to yo' cabin, miss," he announced. "The ship's under weigh, an', as yo' pwobably winging wet, the captain says you ...
— The Captain of the Kansas • Louis Tracy
... waif of these hills——" Thornton had said. "Thunder Peak! The old woman! Mary's silent and secret mission!" rang the echo. Joan's eyes widened; her breath caught in her throat while she compelled herself to weigh and consider—though she did it in the dark. Then suddenly Mary became a tower ...
— The Shield of Silence • Harriet T. Comstock
... not to weigh anchor in a tempest, that's all. The sea in its gentler moods I have never feared, and alcyoneum medicamen, you know, in other words the sea-foam, has ...
— Veranilda • George Gissing


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