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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Weigh \Weigh\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Weighed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Weighing}.] [OE. weien, weyen, weghen, AS. wegan to bear, move; akin to D. wegen to weigh, G. w["a]gen, wiegen, to weigh, bewegen to move, OHG. wegan, Icel. vega to move, carry, lift, weigh, Sw. v["a]ga to weigh, Dan. veie, Goth. gawigan to shake, L. vehere to carry, Skr. vah. ????. See {Way}, and cf. {Wey}.]
1. To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up; as, to weigh anchor. ''Weigh the vessel up.'' --Cowper.
2. To examine by the balance; to ascertain the weight of, that is, the force with which a thing tends to the center of the earth; to determine the heaviness, or quantity of matter of; as, to weigh sugar; to weigh gold.
Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. --Dan. v. 27.
3. To be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to have the heaviness of. ''A body weighing divers ounces.'' --Boyle.
4. To pay, allot, take, or give by weight.
They weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. --Zech. xi. 12.
5. To examine or test as if by the balance; to ponder in the mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion; to estimate deliberately and maturely; to balance.
A young man not weighed in state affairs. --Bacon.
Had no better weighed The strength he was to cope with, or his own. --Milton.
Regard not who it is which speaketh, but weigh only what is spoken. --Hooker.
In nice balance, truth with gold she weighs. --Pope.
Without sufficiently weighing his expressions. --Sir W. Scott.
6. To consider as worthy of notice; to regard. [Obs. or Archaic] ''I weigh not you.'' --Shak.
All that she so dear did weigh. --Spenser.
{To weigh down}. (a) To overbalance. (b) To oppress with weight; to overburden; to depress. ''To weigh thy spirits down.'' --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Weighing \Weigh"ing\, a. & n. from {Weigh}, v.
{Weighing cage}, a cage in which small living animals may be conveniently weighed.
{Weighing house}. See {Weigh-house}.
{Weighing machine}, any large machine or apparatus for weighing; especially, platform scales arranged for weighing heavy bodies, as loaded wagons.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
weighing
noun: careful consideration; "a little deliberation would have deterred them" [syn: {deliberation}, {advisement}]
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