weigh ( gh silent), weghen, weien, we ye, weyen, weygh

t. & i. [A. S. wegan =to carry, to bear, to move; cogn. with Dut.wegen =to weigh; Icel. vega to move, to carry, to lift, to weigh: Dan. veie to weigh; Sw. vága =to weigh; O. H. German wegan =to move; Ger. wegen to move; wiegen = to move gently, to rock; wägen to weigh; Lat. veho =to carry.] A. Transitive : 1. To lift, to raise; to bear up. "With that, their anchors he commands to weigh." Pope: Homer's Ody ey, xv. 590. "Thou [sleep] no more wilt weigh mine eyelids down." Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt. II., iii. L. (2) To preponderate over. "He weighs King Richard down." Shakesp.: Richard II., iii. 4. *2. In trans.: To sink by its own weight or bur den.