See Also: Extra Weight (Added Weight) - Horse Racing(gambling)
Bug Weight (Apprentice Weight) - Horse Racing(gambling)
Apprentice Weight (Bug Weight) - Horse Racing(gambling)
Body Weight - Weight Lifting(gambling)
Elephantiasis(health)
Elephantiasis(medicine)
elephantiasis(dictionary)
elephantiasis telangiectodes(medicine)
elephantiasis neuromatosa(medicine)
elephantiasis, filarial(medicine)

weight(2) (iou) and elephantiasis (iou)


weight(2) (iou)



weight verb trans. Orig. Scot. M17.
[from WEIGHT noun.]
Oppress with or as with weight, weigh down or down. Usu. in pass. M17.
T. Boston Their weighted and sorrowful life..succeeded with..joy. George Eliot A House of Commons..not weighted with..the landed class. M. Sinclair You walked slowly, weighted..by your immense fatigue.
Ascertain the weight of (goods etc.); weigh (lit. & fig.). E18.
Load (down) with a weight; supply with an additional weight; make weighty. M18.
A. Powell Those toys..cannot be pushed over because heavily weighted at the base. J. McGahern He covered the..heap..with clear plastic, weighted down with stones.
b. Treat (a fabric) to make it seem stouter. Also, add weight to (an inferior product) by using an adulterant. M19.
c. Statistics. Multiply (components of an average etc.) by factors reflecting their relative importance. E20.
weighted average: resulting from the multiplication of each component by a factor reflecting its importance.
Assign to (a horse) the weight that must be carried in a handicap race. M19.
Horse & Hound Trying to find a free horse weighted at..my minimum of 10 st. 4 lb.
weightage noun (the assignment of) a weighting factor compensating for some usu. numerical disadvantage E20.
weightedness noun (rare) the quality or condition of being weighted M17.

elephantiasis (iou)



elephantiasis noun. . M16.
[Latin from Greek, from elephas: see ELEPHANT, -IASIS.]
Medicine. A condition in which a part of the body, usu. a limb, is grossly enlarged, esp. when due to obstruction of the lymphatics by filarial worms. Formerly also, any of various diseases characterized by swelling or by alteration of the skin, esp. lepromatous leprosy. M16.
fig. A great or undue expansion or enlargement. M19.