| 释义 |
† gold-weight Obs.
a. pl. Scales for weighing gold.
b. sing. Exact weight, such as is aimed at in weighing gold.
to the gold weight(s, with the greatest exactitude; to be (put) gold-weight, to be (put) in equipoise.
c1500Inventory in Paston Lett. No. 954. III. 408 Item, a payre of gold weghtes in a case, ijs. 1530Palsgr. 226/1 Goldeweightes, trebuchet. 1621Fletcher Wild Goose Chase i. iii, To one that weighs her words and her behaviours In the gold weights of discretion! a1625― Love's Pilgr. i. i, A Master of Ceremonies; But a man, beleeve it, That knew his place to the gold weight. 1630B. Jonson New Inn ii. ii, An host, Who should be King at Armes, and ceremonies, In his owne house! know all, to the goldweights. 1683R. Battell Vulg. Errors 91 If Nature alone could turn the Scale without being put gold-weight by Grace, it were true, but seeing it could not raise the Scale to this equipoize without the assistance of Grace, it is false. 1727Boyer Fr.-Eng. Dict. s.v., That prejudice is sufficient to turn the Scale, where it was Gold-weight before [F. qui auparavant étoit comme en Equilibre]. |