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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Weigh

Weigh, v. t.

verbtransitive

(wā), v. t. [imp. & p. p. WEIGHED; p. pr. & vb. n. WEIGHING.] [A-S. wegan, to bear, move, to weigh, D. & O. Ger. wegen, M. H. Ger. wägen, Icel. vega, Sw. väga, Dan. veie, allied to Lat. vehere, to carry, Skr. vah; A-S. wæge, O. H. Ger. waga, wāgi, N. H. Ger. wage, a balance.]

  1. To bear up; to raise; to lift so that it hangs in the air; to swing up; as, to weigh anchor.
  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 of; as, to weigh sugar; to weigh gold.
  3. To be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to have the heaviness of. “A body weighing divers ounces.” Boyle.
  4. To pay, allot, or take by weight.

They weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. Zech. xi. 12. 5. To ponder in the mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion; to balance; to estimate deliberately and maturely. “Without sufficiently weighing his expressions.” W. Scott. Had no better weighed The strength he was to cope with. Milton. Regard not who it is which speaketh, but weigh only what is spoken. Hooker. Here in nice balance truth with gold she weighs. Pope. 6. To consider as worthy of notice; to regard. “All that she so dear did weigh.” Spenser. “I weigh not you.” Shak. To weigh down. (a.) To overbalance. (b.) To oppress with weight; to overburden; to depress. “To weigh thy spirit down.” Milton.

Weigh, v. i.

verbintransitive

(wā), v. i. 1. To have weight; to be heavy; as, to weigh lighter or heavier.

Sense 2. Hence, to be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.

This objection ought to weigh with those whose reading is designed for much talk and little knowledge. Locke.

Sense 3. To bear heavily; to press hard.

*Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart. Shak.*

Sense 4. To judge; to estimate. [Rare.]

Could not weigh of worthiness aright. Spenser.

To weigh down, to sink by its own weight.

Weigh, n.

noun

(wā), n. A certain quantity estimated by weight; an English measure of weight; a wey. See WEY.