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eighed; determined; reduced to equal or standard weight; as, tared filter papers, used in weighing precipitates.

An old weight used in weighing wool, being usually twenty-eight pounds.

ity a horizontal bar or needle, upon which the forces act. -- Torsion scale, a scale for weighing in which the fulcra of the levers or beams are strained wires or strips acting by torsion.

A kind of balance for weighing. [Obs.]

A toll or duty paid for weighing wool; also, the act of weighing wool. [Obs.] Nares.

A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar. It is now mostly disused. [Scot.] Jamieson. Trone stone, a weight equivalent to nineteen and a half pounds. [Scot.] -- Trone weight, a weight formerly used in S…

troy = 0.82286 of a pound avoirdupois, and 1 ounce troy = 1apothecaries' weight, used in weighing medicines, etc. In the standard weights of the United States, the troy ounce is divided decimally down to the

The act of weighing. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A large rope sometimes used in weighing anchor. [Written also voyal, and voyal.] Totten.

To be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to have the heaviness of. "A body weighing divers ounces." Boyle.

A duty or toil paid for weighing merchandise. Bouvier.

A kind of large steelyard for weighing merchandise; -- also called weighmaster's beam.

A weighing machine on which loaded carts may be weighed; platform scales.

A pack or bag of wool weighing two hundred and forty pounds.