- 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.
- Astron. & PhysicsTo assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight.
- DyeingTo load (fabrics) as with barite, to increase the weight, etc.
- Mathto assign a numerical value expressing relative importance to (a measurement), to be multiplied by the value of the measurement in determining averages or other aggregate quantities; as, they weighted part one of the test twice as heavily as part 2.
