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 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.
 3. Dyeing To load (fabrics) as with barite, to increase the weight, etc.
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