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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]waight (plural waights)
- Obsolete spelling of weight.
- 1570, John Dee, The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara[1]:
- 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[2]:
- This nobler resolution in you, Lords, Heartens me to disclose some thoughts that I— The matter is of waight and dangerous.