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Over weight. Swift.

Without any additional weight; without being handicapped; as, to ride catchweight.

A counterpoise.

To weigh against; to counterbalance.

To weigh or press down. A different sin downweighs them to the bottom. Longfellow.

imp. of Fly. Chaucer.

ransportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight.

The transportation of freight.

One employed in receiving and forwarding freight.

Destitute of freight.

An exclamation of surprise, joy, dejection, uneasiness, weariness, etc. Shak.

The condition of being high; elevated position. Behold the height of the stars, how high they are! Job xxii. 12.

ravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint. "To heighten our confusion." Addison. An aspect of mystery which was easily heightened to the miraculous. Hawthorne.

One who, or that which, heightens.

A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois, the corresponding ton of 2,000 pounds, sometimes called the short…

cism or reproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; -- with against; as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law, an abuse. All men inveighed against him; all men, except court vassals, opposed him. Milton. The artificial life against which we inveighed. Hawthorne.…

One who inveighs.

A narrow strip of land. [Obs.]

In boxing, wrestling, etc., one weighingnot more than 133 pounds (U. S. amateur rules 135 pounds, Eng. 140 pounds).

That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.