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▪ I. weighing, vbl. n.|ˈweɪɪŋ|
Forms: see the vb.; also 5 weyng(e.
[f. weigh v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action of lifting, raising, or hoisting. Also with up, † out, etc.
1485Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 27 Paid..for the weying of an Anker..ijs. 1497Ibid. 171 The brekyng vp of the dokke hede at Portesmouth weyng vt of the piles & shorys. 1545in Hooker Life Sir P. Carew (1857) 131 My Lorde Admyrall..told me that he had a good hope of the waying upright of the Mary Rose this afternone or to-morrow. a1687Sir W. Petty in T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. (1691) 119 The..weighing up of a Ship. 1755in Sixth Rep. Dep. Kpr. Rec. App. ii. 128 A Windlass, for the more easy weighing a Ship's Anchor at Sea.
2. The action or process of ascertaining the weight of an object.
1430Coventry Leet Bk. 134 The ouersight of the weyng, and the sealyng of weightes. c1440Promp. Parv. 520/2 Weyynge, wythe whytys, ponderacio, libracio. a1500in Arnolde's Chron. (1502) 36 Whyinge appartayneth not vnto tronage. 1720Lond. Gaz. No. 5869/2 Owners of Hops are to give Notice.. of the..Hour of bagging and weighing. 1827Faraday Chem. Manip. ii. (1842) 65 The method of double weighing..invented by Borda. 1842S. Lover Handy Andy i, Certain weighing of soap and tobacco was going forward. 1857Miller Elem. Chem., Org. 24 A second weighing gives the quantity of metallic lead. 1884Ld. Kelvin in S. P. Thompson Life xix. (1910) II. 801, I shall be greatly interested to hear more of your silver weighings.
b. concr. (See quot.)
1828Webster, Weighing 2. As much as is weighed at once; as, a weighing of beef.
3. fig. Balancing in the mind, pondering, considering.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 364 And errour in weiyng of þis love makiþ many fals weddings. 1560tr. Fisher's Godlie Treat. Prayer H 6 b, Ouerrunnyng a multitude of wordes with small consideration or weyghing of them. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. (1637) 636 After mature deliberation and weighing of the matter. 1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. iii. v. rule 8 §12 The truth..is determinable by a just weighing of all that which very many wise Men have said, being put together. 1827J. J. Powell's Devises (ed. 3) II. 151 If the ‘weighing of inconveniences’ were to be made on every particular will, the relative situation of the heir and devisee being thrown into the scale. 1848Mrs. Gaskell Mary Barton xv, Will's love had no blushings, no downcast eyes, no weighing of words. 1885Law Rep. 15 Q.B.D. 137 The statute requires that there should be a real inquiry, a real weighing and sifting of evidence.
4. (Downward) pressure.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. lv. (1495) r iv b, This skynne is deeled other slakyd somtyme..by to grete weyghte & weyenge dounwarde of the other membres.
5. Comb., as weighing-cage, weighing-fee, weighing-house, weighing-room, weighing-scales, weighing-yard; weighing-engine, -machine, an apparatus (e.g. a combination of levers, a spring-balance) for weighing heavy bodies; † weighing-post, a post on a race-course, indicating the place appointed for the weighing of the riders.
1819Rees Cycl., *Weighing-Cage,..an open box or cage, by means of which any small animal, such as a pig, sheep, calf,..may be..expeditiously weighed... It is constructed on the principle of the common steel-yard.
1796Repert. Arts & Manuf. VI. 77 The main or long lever of the *weighing-engine. 1861Act 24 & 25 Vict. c. 97 §34 Any House, Building, or Weighing Engine erected for the better Collection, Ascertainment, or Security of any such Toll.
1858Rules of Jockey Club §30 The *weighing fee for plates and stakes is 10s. each horse, and 10s. extra for the winner.
1819Rees Cycl., *Weighing-House, a building furnished with a dock, and conveniences for gauging or ascertaining the tonnage of boats that are to be used on a canal. 1829Tytler Hist. Scot. vi. II. 155 It would be necessary to have some experienced person to attend in the weighing-house upon the part of the king, to superintend the annual payments. 1863M. E. Braddon Aurora Floyd xiii, John was..tumbling over small book-men in his agitation; dashing from the ring to the weighing-house.
1796Repert. Arts & Manuf. VI. 75 (page-heading) Patent for an Improvement in *Weighing-Machines. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 343 The Weighing-machine is an important article of the barn furniture. 1864Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 231 There is a weighing-machine at our green-grocer's.
1688Lond. Gaz. No. 2312/4 Every Horse shall be shewn that day three weeks before the Race, at the *Weighing Post of Caythorp Course. 1734Cheny List Horse-Matches 22 Small-hopes came in first, but the Rider alighting off before he came to the weighing Post, the Gelding was deem'd distanc'd.
1838Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 116/2 There is an office for the clerk of the market, and a *weighing-room.
c1450Test. Ebor. (Surtees) III. 99, j par *weyengscales de ligno, iiij d.
1891‘R. Boldrewood’ Sydney-side Sax. xii, [After the race] Possie rode up to the *weighing yard with me.
▪ II. † ˈweighing, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
Heavy. Obs. rare.
c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 71 Ley vpon þy wombe an hoot sherte and weyand [camisiam calidam ponderosam]. |
