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

Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.

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.

Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.

metimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.

A vessel for freight; -- used in Mediterranean.

A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat. [U.S.]

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

tain 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 measure equal to five cubic feet, used in estimating capacity, as of a vessel for freight. -- Barrel drain (Arch.), a drain in the form of a cylindrical tube. -- Barrel of a boiler, the cylindrical part of a boiler, containing the flues. -- Barrel of the ear (Anat.), the tympanum, or tympanic cavity. -- Barre…

Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs. [Archaic] Shak.

A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall.

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.

the beauty. Jer. Taylor. Beauty spot, a patch or spot placed on the face with intent to heighten beauty by contrast.