Weigh

1. n. A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh.
2. v. t. To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up; as, to weigh anchor.
3. v. t. To examine by the balance; to ascertain the weight of, that is, the force with which a thing tends to the center of the earth; to determine the heaviness, or quantity of matter of; as, to weigh sugar; to weigh gold.
4. v. t. To be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to have the heaviness of.
5. v. t. To pay, allot, take, or give by weight.
6. v. t. To examine or test as if by the balance; to ponder in the mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion; to estimate deliberately and maturely; to balance.
7. v. t. To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.
8. v. i. To have weight; to be heavy.
9. v. i. To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
10. v. i. To bear heavily; to press hard.
11. 1n. 1 A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.