waight

See also: Waight

English

Noun

waight (countable and uncountable, 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.