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Bias :: Bias (n.) A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line..

Lintel :: Lintel (n.) A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture..

Drosometer :: Drosometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the quantity of dew on the surface of a body in the open air. It consists of a balance, having a plate at one end to receive the dew, and at the other a weight protected from the deposit of dew..

Fother :: Fother (n.) See Fodder, a unit of weight..

Cantarro :: Cantarro (n.) A weight used in southern Europe and East for heavy articles. It varies in different localities; thus, at Rome it is nearly 75 pounds, in Sardinia nearly 94 pounds, in Cairo it is 95 pounds, in Syria about 503 pounds..

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

Equiponderant :: Equiponderant (a.) Being of the same weight.

Balance :: Balance (v. i.) To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance..

Tonnage :: Tonnage (n.) The cubical content or burden of a vessel, or vessels, in tons; or, the amount of weight which one or several vessels may carry. See Ton, n. (b)..

Insignificant :: Insignificant (a.) Without weight of character or social standing; mean; contemptible; as, an insignificant person..

Welter :: Welter (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes..

Uranium :: Uranium (n.) An element of the chromium group, found in certain rare minerals, as pitchblende, uranite, etc., and reduced as a heavy, hard, nickel-white metal which is quite permanent. Its yellow oxide is used to impart to glass a delicate greenish-yellow tint which is accompanied by a strong fluorescence, and its black oxide is used as a pigment in porcelain painting. Symbol U. Atomic weight 239..

Thrust :: Thrust (n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.

Exceed :: Exceed (v. t.) To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc.; one offender exceeds another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours..

Handicap :: Handicap (n.) An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like..

Weight :: Weight (v. t.) A definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce weight..

Waid :: Waid (a.) Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down.

Halma :: Halma (n.) The long jump, with weights in the hands, -- the most important of the exercises of the Pentathlon..

Equivalence :: Equivalence (n.) The degree of combining power as determined by relative weight. See Equivalent, n., 2..

Candy :: Candy (n.) A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds..

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