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Doublet of wedge, wagon, way, and vector." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To determine the weight of an object." }, { "mean": "(transitive) Often with \"out\", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.\nHe weighed out two kilos of oranges for a client." }, { "mean": "(transitive, figuratively) To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.\nYou have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.\n2011, Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney, Willpower, →ISBN, page 103:As they started picking features, customers would carefully weigh the choices, but as decision fatigue set in they'd start settling for whatever the default option was." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, figuratively, obsolete) To judge; to estimate.\n1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. , part II (books IV–VI), London: for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 444:But ſhe thereof grew proud and inſolent, / That none ſhe worthie thought to be her fere, / But ſcornd them all, that loue vnto her ment; / Yet was ſhe lou’d of many a worthy pere, / Vnworthy ſhe to be belou’d ſo dere, / That could not weigh of worthineſſe aright." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To consider a subject. (Can we add an example for this sense?)" }, { "mean": "(transitive, stative) To have a certain weight.\nI weigh ten and a half stone." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.\n1613 (date written), William Shakespeare; , “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 228, column 1:If they ſhall faile, I with mine EnemiesWill triumph o're my perſon, which I waigh not,Being of thoſe Vertues vacant.\n1782, William Cowper, “The Yearly Distress or, Tithing-Time in Essex”, in Poems, London: J Johnson, , →OCLC:\nThey only weigh the heavier." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.\nc. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 154, column 1:Your vowes to her, and me,  / Will euen weigh, and both as light as tales.\na. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: , London: A and J Churchill, , published 1706, →OCLC, § 19, page 62:I anſwer, this is a good Objection, and ought to weigh with thoſe whoſe Reading is deſign’d for much Talk and little Knowledge, and I have nothing to ſay to it." }, { "mean": "(transitive, nautical) To raise an anchor free of the seabed." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, nautical) To weigh anchor.\n1624, Walter Russell; Anas Todkill; Thomas Momford, “The Accidents that hapned in the Discovery of the Bay of Chisapeack”, in John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: , London: I D and I H for Michael Sparkes, →OCLC, book 3; reprinted in The Generall Historie of Virginia, (Bibliotheca Americana), Cleveland, Oh.: The World Publishing Company, 1966, →OCLC, page 56:Towards the euening we wayed, & approaching the ſhoare , we landed where there lay a many of baskets and much bloud, but ſaw not a Salvage.\n1841, Edgar Allan Poe, A Descent into the Maelström:Here we used to remain until nearly time for slack-water again, when we weighed and made for home." }, { "mean": "To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up.\n1782, William Cowper, On the Loss of the Royal George:Weigh the vessel up." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.\nc. 1587–1588, , Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , part 1, 2nd edition, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:Thinke you I weigh this treaſure more than you?Not all the Gold in Indias welthy armes,Shall buy the meaneſt ſouldier in my traine.\n1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book VII, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 55, page 358:Them all, and all that ſhe ſo deare did way, \nc. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 137, column 1:Kat. So do not you, for you are a light Wench. / Roſ. Indeed I waigh not you, and therefore light. / Ka. 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