Definition of weigh

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

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Handicap :: Handicap (n.) A race, for horses or men, or any contest of agility, strength, or skill, in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors..
Sustentative :: Sustentation (n.) The aggregate of the functions by which a living organism is maintained in a normal condition of weight and growth.
Woolpack :: Woolpack (n.) A pack or bag of wool weighing two hundred and forty pounds.
Grave :: Grave (superl.) Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
Spall :: Spall (v. i.) To give off spalls, or wedge-shaped chips; -- said of stone, as when badly set, with the weight thrown too much on the outer surface..
Cutter :: Cutter (n.) A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower end deeper than a sloop of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead..
Drop :: Drop (n.) A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck..
Trutination :: Trutination (n.) The act of weighing.
Overweigh :: Overweigh (v. t.) To exceed in weight; to overbalance; to weigh down.
Counterbalance :: Counterbalance (v. t.) To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.
Weigh :: Weigh (v. i.) To have weight; to be heavy.
Millier :: Millier (n.) A weight of the metric system, being one million grams; a metric ton..
Trebucket :: Trebucket (n.) A kind of balance for weighing.
Strontium :: Strontium (n.) A metallic element of the calcium group, always naturally occurring combined, as in the minerals strontianite, celestite, etc. It is isolated as a yellowish metal, somewhat malleable but harder than calcium. It is chiefly employed (as in the nitrate) to color pyrotechnic flames red. Symbol Sr. Atomic weight 87.3..
Tonnage :: Tonnage (n.) The weight of goods carried in a boat or a ship.
Questman :: Questman (n.) One legally empowered to make quest of certain matters, esp. of abuses of weights and measures..
Balance :: Balance (n.) To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance..
Charge :: Charge (n.) Weight; import; value.
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Oke :: Oke (n.) A Turkish and Egyptian weight, equal to about 2/ pounds..
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