waight
English
Noun
waight
- Obsolete spelling of weight
- 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.
- 1884, George MacDonald, The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark:
- By Heauen, thy madnesse shall be payed by waight, ] Till our Scale turnes the beame.
- (Can we date this quote?), 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.
-