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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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weighted
adj 1: made heavy or weighted down with weariness; "his leaden
arms"; "weighted eyelids" [syn: leaden]
2: adjusted to reflect value or proportion; "votes weighted
according to the size of constituencies"; "a law weighted
in favor of landlords"; "a weighted average"