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Swag :: Swag (v. i.) To sink down by its weight; to sag.

Ytterbium :: Ytterbium (n.) A rare element of the boron group, sometimes associated with yttrium or other related elements, as in euxenite and gadolinite. Symbol Yb; provisional atomic weight 173.2. Cf. Yttrium..

Appreciation :: Appreciation (n.) A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence..

Halibut :: Halibut (n.) A large, northern, marine flatfish (Hippoglossus vulgaris), of the family Pleuronectidae. It often grows very large, weighing more than three hundred pounds. It is an important food fish..

Lightly :: Lightly (adv.) With little weight; with little force; as, to tread lightly; to press lightly..

Tridacna :: Tridacna (n.) A genus of very large marine bivalve shells found on the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One species (T. gigas) often weighs four or five hundred pounds, and is sometimes used for baptismal fonts. Called also paw shell, and fountain shell..

Clog :: Clog (v.) A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion..

Balance :: Balance (n.) Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.

Buoyancy :: Buoyancy (n.) The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water..

Equilibrate :: Equilibrate (v. t.) To balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise..

Important :: Important (v. t.) Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing; significant; weighty.

Ram :: Ram (n.) The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like..

Rider :: Rider (n.) A small forked weight which straddles the beam of a balance, along which it can be moved in the manner of the weight on a steelyard..

Auncel :: Auncel (n.) A rude balance for weighing, and a kind of weight, formerly used in England..

Weight :: Weight (v. t.) A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight..

Pound :: Pound (n.) A certain specified weight; especially, a legal standard consisting of an established number of ounces..

Burden :: Burden (n.) The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden..

Breastwheel :: Breastwheel (n.) A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight..

Weighbeam :: Weighbeam (n.) A kind of large steelyard for weighing merchandise; -- also called weighmaster's beam.

Germanium :: Germanium (n.) A rare element, recently discovered (1885), in a silver ore (argyrodite) at Freiberg. It is a brittle, silver-white metal, chemically intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, resembles tin, and is in general identical with the predicted ekasilicon. Symbol Ge. Atomic weight 72.3..

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