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xpressed numerically with reference to some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds. For sorrow, like a heavy-hanging bell, Once set on ringing, with his own weight goes. Shak.

In a weighty manner.

The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.

Having no weight; imponderable; hence, light. Shak.

Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body.

Over weight. Swift.

Without any additional weight; without being handicapped; as, to ride catchweight.

A counterpoise.

A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois, the corresponding ton of 2,000 pounds, sometimes called the short…

Light in weight, as a coin; specif., applied to a man or animal who is a lightweight.

That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.

Weight over and above what is required by law or custom.

See under Paper, n.

A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth part of an ounce; as, a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic. It was anciently the weight of a silver penny, whence the name.

A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that of a lightweight and that of a middleweight.

les to the same proof. Accumulation of energy or power, the storing of energy by means of weights lifted or masses put in motion; electricity stored. -- An accumulation of degrees (Eng. Univ.), the taking of several together, or at smaller intervals than usual or than is allowed by the rules.

emical combinations, or the fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required. -- Ac`id*i*met"ric*al, a.

An instrument for ascertaining the weight or density of air and gases.

An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies. "The affections of quantity." Boyle. And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange affection of the house. Tennyson.

irits, with a scale graduated so as to indicate the percentage of pure alcohol, either by weight or volume. It is usually a form of hydrometer with a special scale.