Definition of weight

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Weight (v. t.) A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight..

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Prime :: Prime (a.) Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; -- so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.
Preponderate :: Preponderate (v. t.) To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance.
Trispaston :: Trispaston (n.) A machine with three pulleys which act together for raising great weights.
Dead :: Dead (a.) Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight..
Pedometer :: Pedometer (n.) An instrument for including the number of steps in walking, and so ascertaining the distance passed over. It is usually in the form of a watch; an oscillating weight by the motion of the body causes the index to advance a certain distance at each step..
Metrology :: Metrology (n.) The science of, or a system of, weights and measures; also, a treatise on the subject..
Overbear :: Overbear (v. t.) To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress..
Scruple :: Scruple (n.) A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.
Pound :: Pound (n.) A certain specified weight; especially, a legal standard consisting of an established number of ounces..
Invalid :: Invalid (a.) Of no force, weight, or cogency; not valid; weak..
Neodymium :: Neodymium (n.) An elementary substance which forms one of the constituents of didymium. Symbol Nd. Atomic weight 140.8.
Swag :: Swag (v. i.) To sink down by its weight; to sag.
Balance :: Balance (n.) To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize..
Batman :: Batman (n.) A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds..
Tun :: Tun (n.) A weight of 2,240 pounds. See Ton..
Wellhole :: Wellhole (n.) A cavity which receives a counterbalancing weight in certain mechanical contrivances, and is adapted also for other purposes..
Maasha :: Maasha (n.) An East Indian coin, of about one tenth of the weight of a rupee..
Seal :: Seal (v. t.) To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality; as, to seal weights and measures; to seal silverware..
Strain :: Strain (n.) A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the strain upon a ship's rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury resulting; a sprain..
Plumb :: Plumb (n.) A little mass or weight of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction; a plummet; a plumb bob. See Plumb line, below..
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