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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.

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…

A narrow strip of land. [Obs.]

Light in weight, as a coin; specif., applied to a man or animal who is a lightweight.

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

To put too much freight in or upon; to load too full, or too heavily; to overload.

Weight over and above what is required by law or custom.

See under Paper, n.

A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth part of an ounce; as, a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic. It was anciently the weight of a silver penny, whence the name.

Cunning; craft; artful practice. [Obs.] "His sleight and his covin." Chaucer.

Cunning; dexterous. [Obs.]

Cunningly. [Obs.] Huloet.

Cunning; sly. [Obs.] Huloet.

A woodpecker; -- called also specht, spekt, spight. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]