specific gravity; pondorosity†, pressure, load; burden, burthen†;
ballast, counterpoise; lump of, mass of, weight of.
lead, millstone, mountain, Ossa on Pelion.
weighing, ponderation†, trutination†; weights; avoirdupois weight,
troy weight, apothecaries' weight; grain, scruple, drachma†, ounce,
pound, lb, arroba†, load, stone, hundredweight, cwt, ton, long ton,
metric ton, quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod†.
[metric weights] gram, centigram, milligram, microgram, kilogram;
nanogram, picogram, femtogram, attogram.
[Weighing Instrument] balance, scale, scales, steelyard, beam,
weighbridge†; spring balance, piezoelectric balance, analytical balance,
two-pan balance, one-pan balance; postal scale, baby scale.
[Science of gravity] statics.
V. be heavy &c adj.; gravitate, weigh, press, cumber, load.
[Measure the weight of] weigh, poise.
Adj. weighty; weighing &c v.; heavy as lead; ponderous, ponderable;
lumpish†, lumpy, cumbersome, burdensome; cumbrous, unwieldy, massive.
incumbent, superincumbent†.