Weigh

wa, v. [weighed (wad), weighing.] To bear up, raise, lift (esp. an anchor) so that hangs in the air; to examine by the balance, ascertain the weight of; to be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to pay, allot, or take by weight; to ponder in the mind, estimate deliberately and mature linger or ink, then, boNboN, chair, get. 692 WEIR 672 ly. v. To have weight, be heavy; to be considered as important; to bear heavily, pre hard. — n. A certain quantity estimated by weight; an Eng. measure of weight. [AS. wegan, to carry, bear, also {v. to move, D. wegen, G. waegen, to weigh, wegen, to move, OHG. wegan, to move, bear, weigh; a. Skr. vah, L. vehere, to carry: see Vehicle E. wag, wagon, wain, wight, whit.] — Weigb/able, a. Capable of being weighed. — Weigh' er, n. One who weighs; an officer whose duty to weigh commodities. —Weight, wat, n. The quality of being heavy that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; measure of the force of gravity for a substance or body; quantity of matter as estimated by the balance; amount which anything weighs; pre ure; burden; importance; influence; consequence; a scale or graduated standard of heavine ; a ponderous ma ; something heavy; a definite ma of iron, lead, bra , or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies, moving machinery, etc. {Mech.) The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves — v. To load with a weight or weights, load down, attach weights to. [ME. weght, AS. gewiht, OD. wicht, gewicht, weight, «.]— Weight'y, a. [-ier; -iest.] Having weight; heavy; important; adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince ponderous burdensome; onerous; forcible; momentous; efficacious.—