2. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important;
forcible; serious; momentous. "For sundry weighty reasons." Shak.
Let me have your advice in a weighty affair.
Swift.
3. Rigorous; severe; afflictive. [R.] "Attend our weightier judgment."
Shak.
Syn. — Heavy; ponderous; burdensome; onerous; forcible; momentous;
efficacious; impressive; cogent.
{ Weir (wr), Wear,} n. [OE. wer, AS. wer; akin to G. wehr, AS. werian
to defend, protect, hinder, G. wehren, Goth. warjan; and perhaps to E.
wary; or cf. Skr. v to check, hinder. √142. Cf. Garret.] 1. A dam in a
river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to
a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like.
2. A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway,
or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.
3. A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical
plate or plank, through which water flows, — used in measuring the
quantity of flowing water.
Weird (wrd), n. [OE. wirde, werde, AS. wyrd fate, fortune, one of the
Fates, fr. weorðan to be, to become; akin to OS. wurd fate, OHG. wurt,
Icel. urðr. √143. See Worth to become.]
1. Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction. [Obs.
or Scot.]