Word Meanings - WEIGHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who weighs; specifically, an officer whose duty it is to weigh commodities.

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• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• OFFICER
  Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
• WHOSE
  The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
• WEIGHABLE
  Capable of being weighed.
• 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 .
• 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.
• WEIGHING
  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
• WEIGHBEAM
  A kind of large steelyard for weighing merchandise; -- also called weighmaster's beam.
• WEIGHAGE
  A duty or toil paid for weighing merchandise. Bouvier.
• 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.
• 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
• SUBOFFICER
  An under or subordinate officer.
• COUNTERWEIGH
  To weigh against; to counterbalance.