Weight \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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |