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To examine by the balance; to ascertain the weight, that is, the force with which a thing tends to the center of gravity; as, to weigh sugar; to weigh gold.

To be equivalent to in weight; that is, according to the Saxon sense of the verb, to lift to an equipoise a weight on the other side of the fulcrum. Thus when a body balances a weight of twenty eight pounds avoirdupois, it lifts or bears it, and is said to weigh so much. It weighs a quarter of a hundred.

To raise; to lift; as an anchor from the ground, or any other body; as, to weigh anchor; to weigh an old hulk.

To pay, allot or take by weight. They weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. Zechariah 11:12.

To ponder in the mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion; as, to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of a scheme. Regard not who it is which speaketh, but weigh only what is spoken.

To compare by the scales. Here in nice balance truth with gold she weighs.

To regard; to consider as worthy of notice. I weigh not you. To weigh down,

To overbalance.

To oppress with weight; to depress.

To have weight; as, to weigh lighter or heavier.

To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance. This argument weighs with the considerate part of the community.

To bear heavily; to press hard. --Cleanse the stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff, which weighs upon the heart. To weigh down, to sink by its own weight.

A certain quantity. A weigh of wool, cheese, is 256 Ib. Avoirdupois; a weigh of corn is forty bushels; of barly or malt, six quarters.