weight nail

Naut .: A nail heavier than a deck-nail, and used for fastening buttons, cleats, . weight-rest, s. 4483 larger number gives the weight of the mercury. It is then raised to a known temperature, when a certain quantity of the expanding mercury pa es out. From this the temperature can be deduced. weight ( gh silent), t. [WEIGHT, 8.] To add or attach a weight or weights to; to load with ad ditional weight; to cause to carry additional weight; to add to the heavine of. "Dark arts are in certain quarters practiced to a la. men table extent in disguising and weighting teas." London Daily Telegraph. weight-ed ( gh silent), pa.par . or a . [WEIGHT,v.] weighted-lathe, s. A lathe in which the rest is held down firmly on the shears by a suspended weight. weight-1-lỹ ( gh silent), adv. [Eng. weighty; -ly.] 1. In a weighty manner; heavily, ponderously. 2. With force, influence, or impre ivene ; with moral power or force; seriously, impre ively. "Is his poetry the worse, because he makes his agents speak weightily and sententiously?"- Browne: On the Ody ey. IMG:content-0772.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Solidity, force, impre ivene ; power of con vincing; as, the weightine of an argument. 3. Importance. "Before a due examination be made proportionable to the weightine of the matter."-Locke: On Human Understand., bk. ii, ch. xxi.