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Weigh   /weɪ/   Listen
verb
Weigh  v. t.  (past & past part. weighed; pres. part. weighing)  
1.
To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up; as, to weigh anchor. "Weigh the vessel up."
2.
To examine by the balance; to ascertain the weight of, that is, the force with which a thing tends to the center of the earth; to determine the heaviness, or quantity of matter of; as, to weigh sugar; to weigh gold. "Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting."
3.
To be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to have the heaviness of. "A body weighing divers ounces."
4.
To pay, allot, take, or give by weight. "They weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver."
5.
To examine or test as if by the balance; to ponder in the mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion; to estimate deliberately and maturely; to balance. "A young man not weighed in state affairs." "Had no better weighed The strength he was to cope with, or his own." "Regard not who it is which speaketh, but weigh only what is spoken." "In nice balance, truth with gold she weighs." "Without sufficiently weighing his expressions."
6.
To consider as worthy of notice; to regard. (Obs. or Archaic) "I weigh not you." "All that she so dear did weigh."
To weigh down.
(a)
To overbalance.
(b)
To oppress with weight; to overburden; to depress. "To weigh thy spirits down."


Weigh  v. i.  
1.
To have weight; to be heavy. "They only weigh the heavier."
2.
To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance. "Your vows to her and me... will even weigh." "This objection ought to weigh with those whose reading is designed for much talk and little knowledge."
3.
To bear heavily; to press hard. "Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart."
4.
To judge; to estimate. (R.) "Could not weigh of worthiness aright."
To weigh down, to sink by its own weight.


noun
Weigh  n.  (Naut.) A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh. "An expedition was got under weigh from New York." "The Athenians... hurried on board and with considerable difficulty got under weigh."


Weigh  n.  A certain quantity estimated by weight; an English measure of weight. See Wey.





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"Weigh" Quotes from Famous Books



... do you think?" Emil Grizek demanded. "Any woman wants a baby, she's got to have those shots. They say kids shrink down into nothing. Weigh less than two pounds when they're born, and never grow up to be any bigger than midgets. You ask me, the whole thing's plumb loco, ...
— This Crowded Earth • Robert Bloch
... mostly The others. Far seemeth Concord to lie from men Who on all things quarrel (The chiefs' arrogance waxeth). With danger fraught will be Wrath of the princes be If peace be agreed on, Those who are peace-makers In scales must weigh all things. Seemly for Kings to say What e'er the host liketh; Bad will would it cause ...
— The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) • Snorri Sturluson
... fixed points, such as A, B, C, D, E, and F, and the weights noted. The points A, B, and C must, of course, be at the same fixed distances from the centre of the propeller as the points D, E, and F. Now reverse the propeller and weigh at each point again. Note the results. The first series of weights should correspond to the second ...
— The Aeroplane Speaks - Fifth Edition • H. Barber
... to tickle spite. The spur is powerful, and I grant its force; It pricks the genius forward in its course, Allows short time for play, and none for sloth, And felt alike by each, advances both, But judge where so much evil intervenes, The end, though plausible, not worth the means. Weigh, for a moment, classical desert Against a heart depraved, and temper hurt, Hurt, too, perhaps for life, for early wrong Done to the nobler part, affects it long, And you are staunch indeed in learning's cause, If you can crown a discipline ...
— Cowper • Goldwin Smith
... was hid from his view by some intervening downs, he thought he saw the men going aloft to loose the topsails, an indication of the ship being about to get under weigh. ...
— The Heir of Kilfinnan - A Tale of the Shore and Ocean • W.H.G. Kingston


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