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The science of exchange, weight, measures, etc.

thout drinking. Its hoofs are small, and situated at the extremities of the toes, and the weight of the animal rests on the callous. The dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) has one bunch on the back, while the Bactrian camel (C. Bactrianus) has two. The llama, alpaca, and vicuña, of South America, belong to a related genus…

A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.

A weight used in southern Europe and East for heavy articles. It varies in different localities; thus, at Rome it is nearly 75 pounds, in Sardinia nearly 94 pounds, in Cairo it is 95 pounds, in Syria about 503 pounds.

for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its sock…

The weight by which precious stones and pearls are weighed.

substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is combustible, and forms the base of lampblack and charcoal, and enters largely into mineral coals. In its pure crystallized state it constitutes the diamond, the hardest of known substances, occuring i…

To carry up, to convey or extend in an upward course or direction; to build. -- To carry weight. (a) To be handicapped; to have an extra burden, as when one rides or runs. "He carries weight, he rides a race" Cowper. (b) To have influence.

To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh. Weigh anchor, cast to starboard. Totten.

en there was an equal vote, the governor had the casting voice." B. Trumbull. -- Casting weight, a weight that turns a balance when exactly poised.

A machine for raising or lowering heavy weights.

An East Indian Weight of 11/3 pounds.

discussion or debate; matter; question; affair in general. What counsel give you in this weighty cause! Shak.

A weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois; -- called in many parts of the United States a Hundredweight.

The hundredth part of a gram; a weight equal to .15432 of a grain. See Gram.

A weight divisible first into a hundred parts, and then into smaller parts.

th. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton.

lic element, occurring in the minerals cerite, allanite, monazite, etc. Symbol Ce. Atomic weight 141.5. It resembles iron in color and luster, but is soft, and both malleable and ductile. It tarnishes readily in the air.

hysical science, based upon the centimeter as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of weight or mass, and the second as the unit of time.

An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exlusively for coal and coke.