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An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures, etc.

Pertaining to, or resembling, Atlas; strong. With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies. Milton.

The pressure or weight of the air at the sea level, on a unit of surface, or about 14.7 Ibs. to the sq. inch. Hydrogen was liquefied under a pressure of 650 atmospheres. Lubbock.

one to one, two to three, or some other, always expressible in whole numbers. -- Atomic weight (Chem.), the weight of the atom of an element as compared with the weight of the atom of hydrogen, taken as a standard.

A rude balance for weighing, and a kind of weight, formerly used in England. Halliwell.

Goods sold by weight. [Obs.]

A weight used in certain parts of the East Indies, varying considerably in different localities, the range being from 223 to 625 pounds.

An apparatus for weighing.

Of or pertaining to weight, esp. to the weight or pressure of the atmosphere as measured by the barometer.

btain the pure metal, from the facility with which it becomes oxidized in the air. Atomic weight,

The science of weight or gravity.

An instrument for ascertaining the weight and length of a newborn infant.

An instrument for determining the weight or pressure of the atmosphere, and hence for judging of the probable changes of weather, or for ascertaining the height of any ascent.

Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates - or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.

A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds. Simmonds.

Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy. His double-biting ax, and beamy spear. Dryden.

A gold coin of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants. [Written also besant, byzant, etc.]

A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line. Being ignorant that there is a concealed bias within the spheroid, which will . . . swerve away. Sir W. Scott.

nd in a native state, and as a constituent of some minerals. Specific gravity 9.8. Atomic weight 207.5. Symbol Bi.

The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.