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A weight, the sixteenth part of a pound avoirdupois, and containing 437

To outweight; to exceed in weight or effect. Let dull Ajax bear away my right When all his days outbalance this one night. Dryden.

To exceed in weight or value.

Excess of weight or value; something more than an equivalent; as, an overbalance of exports. J. Edwards.

To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress. The point of reputation, when the news first came of the battle lost, did overbear the reason of war. Bacon. Overborne with weight the Cyprians fell. Dryden. They are not so ready to overbear the adversary who goes out of…

To load with too great weight or too much care, etc. Sir P. Sidney.

Preponderant weight; a counterbalance. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

proof spirit; stronger than proof spirit; that is, containing more than 49.3 per cent by weight of alcohol.

To exceed in weight; to overbalance; to weigh down. Drayton. Hooker.

ent occurring in the free state in the atmosphere, of which it forms about 23 per cent by weight and about 21 per cent by volume, being slightly heavier than nitrogen. Symbol O. Atomic weight 15.96.

Causing pain; painful. [Obs.] The manacles of Astyages were not . . . the less weighty and painable for being composed of gold or silver. Evelyn.

04 by Wollaston from the asteroid Pallas, which was discovered in 1802. Symbol Pd. Atomic weight, 106.2.

of August 24, 1912, which took effect Jan. 1, 1913. Parcels must not exceed 11 pounds in weight nor 72 inches in length and girth combined. Provision is made from insuring parcels up to $50.00, and also for sending parcels C.O.D. The rates of postage vary with the distance. See Zone, below.

to keep the sashes apart; also, the thin piece inserted in the window box to separate the weights. -- Parting tool (Mach.), a thin tool, used in turning or planing, for cutting a piece in two.

The sliding weight on a steelyard. [Written also pee.]

certaining 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.

A weight; a poise. [Obs.] "To weigh pence with a peise." Piers Plowman.

Denoting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds.

To weight carefully in the mind. [R.] "Perpend my words." Shak.

entine, Chilian, Colombian, etc., coin, equal to from 75 cents to a dollar; also, a pound weight.