Word Meanings - WAID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down. Tusser.

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• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• WEIGHTILY
  In a weighty manner.
• WEIGHMASTER
  One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.
• OPPRESSION
  1. The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed. 2. That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. "The multitude of oppressions." Job xxxv. 9. 3. A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind;
• OPPRESSOR
  One who oppresses; one who imposes unjust burdens on others; one who harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity. The orphan pines while the oppressor feeds. Shak. To relieve the oppressed and to punish the oppressor. Swift.
• 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.
• OPPRESSURE
  Oppression.
• 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
• CRUSH
  LL. cruscire, prob. of Ger. origin, from a derivative of the word seen in Goth. kruistan to gnash; akin to Sw. krysta to squeeze, Dan. 1. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of
• 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.
• WEIGHABLE
  Capable of being weighed.
• OPPRESSIVE
  1. Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law. Macaulay. 2. Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or commands. 3. Heavy; overpowering;
• WEIGHBRIDGE
  A weighing machine on which loaded carts may be weighed; platform scales.
• WEIGH
  A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh. An expedition was got under weigh from New York. Thackeray. The Athenians . . . hurried on board and with considerable difficulty got under weigh. Jowett .
• CRUSHER
  One who, or that which, crushes. Crusher gauge, an instrument for measuring the explosive force of gunpowder, etc., by its effect in compressing a piece of metal.
• WEIGHTLESS
  Having no weight; imponderable; hence, light. Shak.
• WEIGHLOCK
  A lock, as on a canal, in which boats are weighed and their tonnage is settled.
• OPPRESS
  1. To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty. Wyclif. For thee, oppressèd king, am I cast down. Shak. Behold the kings of the earth; how they oppress Thy chosen ! Milton. 2. To ravish; to
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• 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
• AWEIGH
  Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor. Totten.
• UNWEIGHING
  Not weighing or pondering; inconsiderate. Shak.
• INOPPRESSIVE
  Not oppressive or burdensome. O. Wolcott.
• MAKEWEIGHT
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• LIGHTWEIGHT
  In boxing, wrestling, etc., one weighingnot more than 133 pounds
• COUNTERWEIGH
  To weigh against; to counterbalance.