Word Meanings - UNWEIGHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not weighing or pondering; inconsiderate. Shak.

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• PONDEROUS
  1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
• PONDERARY
  Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system. M'Culloch.
• PONDERAL
  Estimated or ascertained by weight; -- distinguished from numeral; as, a ponderal drachma. Arbuthnot.
• PONDEROUSLY
  In a ponderous manner.
• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• WEIGHTILY
  In a weighty manner.
• PONDERATION
  The act of weighing. Arbuthnot.
• WEIGHMASTER
  One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.
• INCONSIDERATE
  1. Not considerate; not attentive to safety or to propriety; not regarding the rights or feelings of others; hasty; careless; thoughtless; heedless; as, the young are generally inconsiderate; inconsiderate conduct. It is a very unhappy token of
• WEIGHER
  One who weighs; specifically, an officer whose duty it is to weigh commodities.
• WEIGH-HOUSE
  A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed.
• PONDERATE
  To consider; to ponder.
• INCONSIDERATENESS
  The quality or state of being inconsiderate. Tillotson.
• PONDERING
  Deliberating. -- Pon"der*ing*ly, adv.
• WEIGHT
  The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it. Atomic weight. See under Atomic, and cf. Element. -- Dead weight, Feather weight, Heavy weight, Light weight, etc. See under Dead, Feather, etc. -- Weight of
• PONDEROUSNESS
  The quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity.
• WEIGHTY
  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.
• WEIGHBOARD
  Clay intersecting a vein. Weale.
• PONDERANCE
  Weight; gravity. Gregory.
• WEIGHABLE
  Capable of being weighed.
• EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
  Equality of weight; equipoise.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• PREPONDERATINGLY
  In a preponderating manner; preponderantly.
• WELTERWEIGHT
  1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that
• PREPONDERATE
  prae before + ponderare to weigh, fr., pondus, ponderis, a weight. 1. To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance. An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the center of the balance, will preponderate greater
• COUNTERPONDERATE
  TO equal in weight; to counterpoise; to equiponderate.
• AWEIGH
  Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor. Totten.
• UNWEIGHING
  Not weighing or pondering; inconsiderate. Shak.
• PREPONDER
  To preponderate