Syn. Ponderousness; gravity; heaviness; pressure; burden; load; importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness.
(Weight), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Weighted; p. pr. & vb. n. Weighting.]
1. To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a
horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle.
The arrows of satire, . . . weighted with sense.Coleridge.
2. (Astron. & Physics) To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an
observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight.
(Weight"i*ly) adv. In a weighty manner.
(Weight"i*ness) n. The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
(Weight"less), a. Having no weight; imponderable; hence, light. Shak.
(Weight"y) a. [Compar. Weightier ; superl. Weightiest.]
1. Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body.
2. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous. "For
sundry weighty reasons." Shak.
Let me have your advice in a weighty affair.Swift.
3. Rigorous; severe; afflictive. [R.] "Attend our weightier judgment." Shak.
Syn. Heavy; ponderous; burdensome; onerous; forcible; momentous; efficacious; impressive; cogent.
(Weir Wear), n. [OE. wer, AS. wer; akin to G. wehr, AS. werian to defend, protect, hinder, G.
wehren, Goth. warjan; and perhaps to E. wary; or cf. Skr. v&rsdot to check, hinder. &radic142. Cf.
1. A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish
pond, or the like.
2. A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.