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To weigh against; to counterbalance.

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

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…

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.

To exceed in weight or value.

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

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.

Sway; movement. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Not weighed; not pondered or considered; as, an unweighed statement.

Not weighing or pondering; inconsiderate. Shak.

A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that of a lightweight and that of a middleweight.

les to the same proof. Accumulation of energy or power, the storing of energy by means of weights lifted or masses put in motion; electricity stored. -- An accumulation of degrees (Eng. Univ.), the taking of several together, or at smaller intervals than usual or than is allowed by the rules.

emical combinations, or the fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required. -- Ac`id*i*met"ric*al, a.

nce, conduct; behavior; demeanor. The Lord is a Good of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. 1 Sam. ii. 3.

An instrument for ascertaining the weight or density of air and gases.

The science of weighing air; aërostatics. [Obs.]

An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies. "The affections of quantity." Boyle. And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange affection of the house. Tennyson.