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

See 2nd Strait. [Obs.]

See Straiten. [Obs.]

Sway; movement. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To transfrete. [Obs.] Waterhouse.

Being without neigbors. Cowper.

Not neighborly; distant; reserved; solitary; exclusive. -- adv.

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

Not weighing or pondering; inconsiderate. Shak.

A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh. An expedition was got under weigh from New York. Thackeray. The Athenians . . . hurried on board and with considerable difficulty got under weigh. Jowett (Thucyd.).

A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed.

Capable of being weighed.

A duty or toil paid for weighing merchandise. Bouvier.

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

Clay intersecting a vein. Weale.

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

One who weighs; specifically, an officer whose duty it is to weigh commodities.

a. & n. from Weigh, v. Weighing cage, a cage in which small living animals may be conveniently weighed. -- Weighing house. See Weigh-house. -- Weighing machine, any large machine or apparatus for weighing; especially, platform scales arranged for weighing heavy bodies, as loaded wagons.

A lock, as on a canal, in which boats are weighed and their tonnage is settled.

One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.