weightiness (watines)

The state or quality of being weighty; ponderousne ; heavine , literally or figuratively; solidity; force; importance. The weightine that was upon their spirits and countenances keeping down the lightne that would have been up in us. T. Ellwood, Life (ed. Howells), p. 192. The weightine of any argument. Locke . The weightine of the adventure. Sir J. Hayward . weighting (wa'ting), n. [Ver [Verbal n. of weight1 , v. In coal - mining , subsidence or other disturv.] bance in a coal-mine due to "weight," or pre ure of the overlying ma of rock. A mine in which such subsidence is taking place is said Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 7. to be "on the weight." [Eng.] IMG:content-2211.png:[blocks in formation] Milton , P. L., ii. 307. Why does that lovely Head, like a fair Flow'r Oppre 'd with Drops of a hard-falling Show'r, Bend with its Weight of Grief? Congreve , To Cynthia. 7. In coal- mining, subsidence of the roof due to pre ure from above, which takes effect as the coal is worked away. In long-wall working, the weight is usually of importance, as causing the coal, after it has been holed, to "get itself"- that is, to break down without the nece ity of using powder, wedges, or something similar. Properly, "weight" is the cause and