Dictionary entry

Weight (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.