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A quantity of wares, as raw silk, etc., from one hundred weight.

make according to the rule prescribed by custom. Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight. Locke.

The lightest weight that can be put on the back of a horse in racing. Youatt. (c) In wrestling, boxing, etc., a term applied to the lightest of the classes into which contestants are divided; -- in contradistinction to light weight, middle weight, and heavy weight. A feather in the cap an honour, trophy, or mark of dis…

Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh.

lakes or layers; flakelike. What showers of mortal hail, what flaky fires! Watts. A flaky weight of winter's purest snows. Wordsworth.

The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or substracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion. The flexure of a curve (Math.), the bending of a curve towards or from a straight line.

Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something. Specifically:

was not isolated until 1886. It is a pungent, corrosive, colorless gas. Symbol F. Atomic weight 19.

A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below).

A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19 [Obs.]

To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter. It is not sufficient to have attained the name and dignity of a shepherd, not forcing how. Udall.

See Fodder, a unit of weight.

Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; as, a frivolous argument. Swift.

See Fodder, a weight.

Movable goods which may be valued by weight or measure, in contradistinction from those which must be judged of individually. Jamieson.

d at one end to a fixed point, and having the other passed over a pulley and sustaining a weight, while one or more other weights are suspended from the cord at points between the fixed support and the pulley. -- Funicular polygon (Mech.), the polygonal figure assumed by a cord fastened at its extremities, and sustain…

A small coin and weight; 1-20th of a shekel.

sembles tin, and is in general identical with the predicted ekasilicon. Symbol Ge. Atomic weight 72.3.

engine lathe in which the tool carriage is held down to the bed by a gib instead of by a weight.

A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.