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weighable, a.|ˈweɪəb(ə)l|
[f. weigh v.1 + -able.]
That can be weighed; heavy enough (or reckoned as heavy enough) to be weighed in scales.
1429Rolls of Parlt. IV. 349/1 Woll, and al maner þinge weiable. 1570Dee Math. Pref. c jb, Of euery one, the Content knowen, in your least waight, that is wayable. 1616Burgh Rec. Stirling (1887) I. 144 All weyabill merchand waris, sic as lint, hemp, irn, woll. 1796T. Twining Trav. Amer. (1894) 161 It was applicable..in every wholesale warehouse of weighable goods. 1854Dickens Hard T. iii. vii, Anything so..ridiculously shameful as the whelp in his comic livery, Mr. Gradgrind never could by any other means have believed in, weighable and measurable fact though it was. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 50, I am not aware that the soul of Shakespeare or of Newton, when they died, added any weighable powers to the dust to which they returned. 1885Leeds Mercury 5 Aug. 3/2 Where he found a weighable quantity was in the liver. |