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One who ponders.

Deliberating. -- Pon"der*ing*ly, adv.

The quality or state of being ponderous; weight; gravity; heaviness, ponderousness; as, the ponderosity of gold. Ray.

Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak.

In a ponderous manner.

The quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity.

To condemn beforehand. -- Pre*con`dem*na"tion, n.

To preponderate [Obs.]

The quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing. The mind should . . . reject or receive proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater grounds of probability. Locke. In a few weeks he had changed the relative position of all the states in Europ…

Preponderating; outweighing; overbalancing; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a preponderant weight; of preponderant importance. -- Pre*pon"der*ant*ly, adv.

erbalance. An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the center of the balance, will preponderate greater magnitudes. Glanvill.

In a preponderating manner; preponderantly.

The act or state of preponderating; preponderance; as, a preponderation of reasons. I. Watts.

The act or process of recondensing.

To condense again.

The act of responding; the state of being respondent; an answering. A. Chalmers. The angelical soft trembling voice made To the instruments divine respondence meet. Spenser.

Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding. Wealth respondent to payment and contributions. Bacon.

A loan upon goods laden on board a ship. It differs from bottomry, which is a loan on the ship itself. Bouvier.

A kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright, giving the characters when taken together a round look.

A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule.