Weigh , n. [See Wey.]
A certain quantity estimated by weight; an English measure of weight. See Wey.
Weigh (?), v. i. 1. To
have weight; to be heavy. "They only weigh the heavier." Cowper.
2.
To be considered as important; to have weight in the
intellectual balance.
Your vows to her and me . . .
will even weigh.
Shak.
This objection ought to weigh with those whose reading is designed for much talk and
little knowledge.
Locke.
3. To bear heavily; to press hard.
Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that
perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart.
Shak. 4. To judge; to estimate. [R.]
Could not weigh of worthiness aright.
Spenser. To weigh down, to sink by its own weight.
Weigh , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Weighed (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Weighing.]
[OE. weien,
weyen, weghen, AS. wegan to bear, move;
akin to D.
wegen to weigh, G. wägen, wiegen, to weigh, bewegen to move, OHG. wegan, Icel.
vega to move, carry, lift, weigh, Sw. väga to weigh, Dan. veie, Goth. gawigan to shake, L.
vehere to carry, Skr.
vah. &?;&?;&?;&?;. See Way, and cf. Wey.]
1. To bear up; to raise; to lift into the
air; to swing up; as,
to weigh anchor. "Weigh the vessel up." Cowper.
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, or quantity of matter of;
as, to weigh sugar; to weigh gold.
Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found
wanting.
Dan.
v. 27. 3. To be equivalent to in weight; to
counterbalance; to have the heaviness of. "A body weighing divers ounces."
Boyle.
4. To pay, allot, take, or give
by weight.
They weighed for my price
thirty pieces of silver.
Zech. xi. 12.
5. To examine or test as if by the balance; to ponder in the
mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an
opinion or coming to a conclusion; to estimate deliberately
and maturely; to balance.
A young man not weighed in state affairs.
Bacon. Had no better
weighed
The strength he was to cope with, or his own.
Milton. Regard not who it is which speaketh, but weigh only what is spoken.
Hooker. In
nice balance, truth with gold she
weighs.
Pope.
Without sufficiently weighing his
expressions.
Sir W.
Scott. 6. To consider as worthy of notice; to regard. [Obs. or Archaic] "I weigh not you." Shak.
All that she
so dear did
weigh.
Spenser.
To weigh down. (a) To overbalance.
(b) To oppress with weight; to overburden; to depress. "To weigh thy spirits down." Milton.
Weigh (wā), n. (Naut.) A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase
under weigh.
An expedition was got under weigh from New York.
Thackeray.
The Athenians . . . hurried on board and with considerable difficulty got under weigh.
Jowett (Thucyd.).
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