waight

English

Noun

waight

1. Obsolete spelling of weight.
   • 1882-1889, Various, Old English Plays, Vol. I^[1]:

     This nobler resolution in you, Lords, Heartens me to disclose some thoughts that I-- The matter is of waight and dangerous.

   • 1884, George MacDonald, The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark^[2]:

     By Heauen, thy madnesse shall be payed by waight, ] Till our Scale turnes the beame.

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Dee, The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara^[3]:

     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.