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OHG. wegan, Icel. vega to move, carry, lift, weigh, Sw. väga to weigh, Dan. veie, Goth. gawigan to shake, L. vehere to carry, Skr. vah. . See Way, and cf. Wey.] Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.Dan. v. 27. They weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.Zech. xi. 12. A young man not weighed in state affairs.Bacon. Had no better weighedMilton. Regard not who it is which speaketh, but weigh only what is spoken.Hooker. In nice balance, truth with gold she weighs.Pope. Without sufficiently weighing his expressions.Sir W. Scott. All that she so dear did weigh.Spenser. Your vows to her and me . . . will even weigh.Shak. This objection ought to weigh with those whose reading is designed for much talk and little knowledge.Locke. Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuffShak. Could not weigh of worthiness aright.Spenser. |
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