weight rest (watrest)

the result, the words are often used with nearly the same meaning. 8. Importance; specifically, the importance of a fact as evidence tending to establish a conclusion; efficacy; power of influencing the conduct of persons and the course of events; effective influence in general. In calculations by least squares, the weight a igned to an observation is its effect upon the result, expre ed by its equivalence to a certain number of concordant observations of standard accuracy. It happens many times that, to vrge and enforce the matter we speake of, we go still mounting by degrees and encreasing our speech with wordes or with sentences of more waight one then another, & is a figure of great both efficacie & ornament. We call this figure by the Greeke origin all, the Auancer or figure of encrease, because euery word that is spoken is one of more weight then another. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 182. For weill aneughe they understood The matter was of weght . Battle of Balrinnes (Child's Ballads, VII. 223). As men are in quality and as their services are in weight for the public good, so likewise their rewards and encouragements might somewhat declare how the state itself doth accept their pains. Hooker , Eccles. Polity, v. 81. If the people of Ireland were a united nation, it is conceivable that their demand for autonomy would have weight. Edinburgh Rev., CLXIII. 568. The huge dead weight of stupidity and indolence is al ways ready to smother audacious enquiries. Leslie Stephen, Eng. Thought, i. § 17. I feel so free and so clear By the lo of that dead weight. Tennyson, Maud, xix. 10. Fisherman's weight. See fisherman. - Gro weight, the weight before deduction for tare, impurity, or other similar correction: in contradistinction to net or suttle A form of lathe rest which is held firmly upon the shears by a weight hung beneath. E. H. Knight. weighty (wa'ti), a. [Early mod. E. also waigh tie, wayghty; sider able weight; heavy; ponderous. Yorke. I pray you, Vncle, giue me this Dagger.... Glo. It is too weightie for your Grace to weare. Shak., Rich. III. (fol. 1623), iii. 1. 2. Burdensome; hard to bear. He was beholding to the Romanes, that eased him of so waightie a burthen, and le ened his cares of gouernment. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 84. The cares of empire are great, and the burthen which lics upon the shoulders of princes very weighty. Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, I. viii. 3. Important; serious; momentous; grave. Nor for no fauour suld promoue thame To that most gret and wechty cure. Lauder , Dewtie of Kyngis (E. E. T. S.), 1. 297. This secret is so weighty 'twill require A strong faith to conceal it. Shak., Hen. VIII., ii. 1. 144. My head is full of thoughts More weighty than thy life or death can be. Beau . and Fl., Maid's Tragedy, iii. 2. 4. Adapted to affect the judgment or to convince; forcible; cogent. Masking the busine from the common eye For sundry weighty reasons. Shak., Macbeth, iii. 1. 126. Skillful diplomatists were surprised to hear the weighty observations which at seventeen the prince made on public affairs. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vii. 5. Grave or serious in aspect or purport. Things. That bear a weighty and a serious brow. Shak., Hen. VIII., Prol., 1. 2. She looked upon me with a weighty countenance, and fetched a deep sigh, crying out, "O the cumber and entanglements of this vain world!" Penn, Travels in Holland, etc. weight.-Lazy, net, tron weight. See the qualifying 6. Authoritative; influential; important. words. Mercurial-weight thermometer. Same as overflowing thermometer (which see, under thermometer ). Weight of an observation, the number of ordinary observations to which it is considered as equivalent in the deduction of the most probable value. Compare def. 8.Weight of a reciprocant. See reciprocant. - Weight of metal, the weight of iron capable of being thrown at one discharge from all the guns of a ship. Weight of wind, in organ - building , the degree of compre ion in the air furnished by the bellows to a particular stop or group of stops. The usual pre ure is sufficient to raise a column of water in a U-tube about 3 inches.