waight

See also: Waight

English

Noun

waight (plural waights)

  1. Obsolete spelling of weight
    • 1570, John Dee, The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara‎:
      Now, when you haue two thinges Miscible, whose degrees are truely knowen: Of necessitie, either they are of one Quantitie and waight, or of diuerse.
    • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
      By Heauen, thy madnesse shall be payed by waight,
      Till our Scale turnes the beame.
    • 1882–1889, Various, Old English Plays, Vol. I‎:
      This nobler resolution in you, Lords, Heartens me to disclose some thoughts that I— The matter is of waight and dangerous.
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