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o carry up, to convey or extend in an upward course or direction; to build. -- To carry weight. (a) To be handicapped; to have an extra burden, as when one rides or runs. "He carries weight, he rides a race" Cowper. (b) To have influence.

ess of transporting goods, etc., from one place or country to another by water or land; freighting. We are rivals with them in . . . the carrying trade. Jay.

n there was an equal vote, the governor had the casting voice." B. Trumbull. -- Casting weight, a weight that turns a balance when exactly poised.

Having a castle or castles; supporting a castle; as, a castled height or crag.

A machine for raising or lowering heavy weights.

An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces of two columns of mercury or other fluid, or of the same column at different times. It consists of a telescopic leveling apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic…

An East Indian Weight of 11/3 pounds.

In the Corinthian capital, one of the eight stalks rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to suport the volutes. See Illust. of Corinthian order, under Corinthian.

discussion or debate; matter; question; affair in general. What counsel give you in this weighty cause! Shak.

Height; altitude. [Obs.]

A weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois; -- called in many parts of the United States a Hundredweight.

The hundredth part of a gram; a weight equal to .15432 of a grain. See Gram.

A weight divisible first into a hundred parts, and then into smaller parts.

ic element, occurring in the minerals cerite, allanite, monazite, etc. Symbol Ce. Atomic weight 141.5. It resembles iron in color and luster, but is soft, and both malleable and ductile. It tarnishes readily in the air.

ysical science, based upon the centimeter as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of weight or mass, and the second as the unit of time.

An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exlusively for coal and coke.

Partnership in power; equal share of authority. [Obs.] Beauté ne sleighte, strengthe ne hardyness, Ne may with Venus holde champartye. Chaucer.

Weight; import; value. Many suchlike "as's" of great charge. Shak. Back charge. See under Back, a. -- Bursting charge. (a (Mil.) The charge which bursts a shell, etc. (b (Mining) A small quantity of fine powder to secure the ignition of a charge of coarse powder in blasting. -- Charge and discharge (Equity Practice),…

set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.

The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.