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balance.—This objection ought to weigh with those, whose 
reading is designed for much talk and little knowledge. 
Locke. —To raise the anchor. 
When gath’ring clouds o’ershadow all the skies, 
And shoot quick lightnings, weigh, my boys, he cries. 
■Dry den. 
To bear heavily; to press hard. 
Can’st thou not minister to a mind diseas’d, 
And with some sweet oblivious antidote 
Cleanse the stufFd bosom of that perilous stuff 
Which -weighs upon the heart ? Shahspeare. 
To sink by its own weight.—The Indian fig boweth so 
low, as it taketh root again ; the plenty of the sap, and the 
softness of the stalk, making the bough, being overloaden, 
<weigh down. Bacon. 
WEIGHED, adj. Experienced.'—In an embassy of 
weight, choice was made of some sad person of known ex¬ 
perience, and not of a young man, not weighed in state 
matters. Bacon. 
WE'IGHER, s. One who weighs.—Any thing which 
weighs, or is considered important.—The worse [choice,] 
most an end, was the weigher. Milton. 
WEIGHT, s. [paejeb, Saxon; the third person singular 
of the indicative of paetan: the weight of any thing, being 
that which it weigheth. Mr. H. Tooke. ]—Quantity mea¬ 
sured by the balance. 
Fain would I chuse a middle course to steer; • 
Nature’s too kind, and justice too severe: 
Speak for us both, and to the balance bring. 
On either side, the father and the king : 
Heav’n knows my heart is bent to favour thee 
Make it but scanty weight, and leave the rest to me. 
Dry den. 
A mass by which, as the standard, other bodies are exami¬ 
ned.—When the balance is entirely broke, by mighty weights 
fallen into either scale, the power will never continue Tong 
in equal division, but run entirely into one. Swift .—Pon¬ 
derous mass.—A man leapeth better with weights in his 
hands than without; for that the weight, if proportionable, 
strengtheneth the sinews by contracting them; otherwise, 
where no contraction is needful, weight hindereth; as we 
see in horseraces, men are curious to foresee that there be not 
the least weight upon the one horse more than upon the 
other. In leaping with weights, the arms are first cast back¬ 
wards, and then forwards, with so much the greater force. 
Bacon. 
All their confidence 
Under the weight of mountains bury’d deep. Milton. 
Gravity ; heaviness; tendency to the centre. 
The shaft that slightly was impress’d. 
Now from his heavy fall with weight increas’d, 
Drove through his neck. Dryden. 
Pressure; burthen; overwhelming power.—Thou art no 
Atlas for so great a weight. Shakspeare. —Importance; 
power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment. 
How to make ye suddenly an answer. 
In such a point of weight, so near mine honour. 
In truth I know not. Shakspeare. 
WEIGHTILY, adv. Heavily; ponderously; solidly; 
importantly.—Is his poetry the worse, because he makes his 
agents speak weightily and sententiously ? Broome. 
WEIGHTINESS, s. Ponderosity ; gravity; heaviness; 
solidity ; force ; importance. 
WEIGHTLESS, adj. Light; having no gravity. 
It must both weightless and immortal prove. 
Because the centre of it is above. Dryden. 
WEIGHTY, adj. Heavy; ponderous. 
You have already weary’d fortune so, 
She cannot farther be your friend or foe; 
But sits all breathless, and admires to feel 
A fate so weighty, that it stops her wheel. 
Vox.. XXIV. No. 1659. 
Dryden. 
Important; momentous; efficacious. 
I to your assistance do make love. 
Masking the business from the common eye 
For sundry weighty reasons. Shakspeare. 
Rigorous; severe. Notin use. 
If, after two days’ shine, Athens contains thee, 
Attend our weightier judgement. Shakspeare 
WEIGSDORF, a village of Prussia, in Upper Lusatia; 8 
miles north-north-east of Krottau. 
WEIKARTSCHLAG, a petty town of Lower Austria, on 
the river Theya. 
WEIKENDORF, a town of Lower Austria; 16 miles 
north-east of Vienna. 
WE1KERSDORF, a town of Germany, in Lower Aus¬ 
tria ; 22 miles west-north-west of Vienna. 
WEIKERSHEIM, a town of the west of Germany, on 
the Tauber. 
WEIL, a town of Germany, in Wirtemberg, on the river 
Wurm; II miles west-south-west of Stutgard.—2. A small 
town of Switzerland; 16 miles west-by-north of St. Gall, 
near the Thur.—3. A well built village of Germany; 2 miles 
north of Bale. Population 1000. 
WEIL IM SCHONBUCH, a town of Germany, in Wir¬ 
temberg ; 13 miles west of Stutgard. Population nearly 2000. 
WEILBURG, a town of Germany, the chief place of the 
duchy of Nassau; 35 miles north-by-east of Mentz. Popula¬ 
tion 1800. 
WEILD, a parish of England, in Southamptonshire; 6 
miles west of Alton. 
WEILHEIM, a village of Germany, in Baden, with 800 
inhabitants.—2. A town of Germany, in Wirtemberg, with 
2800 inhabitants; 19 miles east-south-east of Stutgard.—3. 
A walled town of Upper Bavaria, on the Amber. It has a 
castle; 26 miles south-west of Munich. Population 2000. 
WEILMUNSTER, a village of Germany, in the duchy of 
Nassau, with silver and copper mines; 29 miles north-by¬ 
east of Mentz. 
WE1LNAU, New and Old, two petty towns of Germany, 
in the duchy of Nassau; 18 miles north-east of Mentz. 
WEILTINGEN, a small town of Germany, in Bavaria; 
42 miles south-west of Nuremberg. 
WEIMAR, Saxe, a small but independent state of the 
interior of Germany, with the title of a grand duchy. It con¬ 
sists of several districts, the surface of which, when added 
together, form an area equal to one of our larger counties, 
viz., 1450 square miles, with somewhat more than 200,000 
inhabitants. The whole is divided into two parts or pro¬ 
vinces : 1st, the province of Weimar comprehends the 
duchies of Weimar and Jena, with part of the principality of 
Altenburg, the chief part of the circle of Neustadt, and the 
petty districts of Ilmenau, Oldisleben, and Alstadt, which lie 
scattered in Thuringia. The extent of this province is 970 
square miles; its population above 135,000. The other, 
called the province of Eisenach, comprises the duchy of that 
name, with some districts to the east of the Hesse-Cassel ter¬ 
ritory, acquired in 1815. The area is 480 square miles; the 
population above 66,000. 
Of the province of Weimar, the most hilly part is the dis¬ 
trict of Ilmenau; other parts, without being rugged, have 
sufficient diversity of prospect to be beautiful and romantic, 
particularly the valley of Jena. It is in that valley only that 
vines succeed, the rest of the province being deficient in 
warmth. The soil being in general fertile, yields corn enough 
for consumption; and the pastures on the hills feed numer¬ 
ous flocks of sheep; but the larger cattle are less attended to; 
and the manufactures are insignificant. The province of 
Eisenach is more mountainous, and consequently less pro¬ 
ductive, than that of Weimar. Its chief wealth is in its 
forests, its pasturages, its mines, and quarries. Hemp and 
flax are reared; but the growth of corn is inadequate to the 
consumption. Manufactures of linen and hardware are 
carried on to some extent. The grand duke is a member of 
the Germanic confederation, and bears, as well, as his eldest 
son, the title of royal highness. The revenue is about 
6 M 150,000/. 
