Verb (used with object) : to weigh oneself; to weigh potatoes; to weigh gases. ,to weigh out five pounds of sugar. ,We weighed the drapes to make them hang properly. ,to weigh the facts; to weigh a proposal.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : to weigh less; to weigh a ton. ,Your recommendation weighs heavily in his favor. ,Responsibility weighed upon her. ,to weigh well before deciding. ,The ship weighed early and escaped in the fog.    From Dictionary.com. 

In January, 1839, he became a weigher and gauger in the Boston Custom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Short-story] Reference

Bancroft secured for Hawthorne a position as weigher and gauger in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference

All the ways of a man are open to his eyes: the Lord is the weigher of spirits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference

I ain't by nater a weigher or trimmer and I don't care a durn for what ain't my business.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Thou Gavest] Reference

Along with the other "weigher-inners", I could break my studied silence and take a position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neil McCarthy: Sounds of Silence] Reference

A common picture on the Egyptian monuments is that of the weigher with his balance and scales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

"Weigh in!" he cried, tossing his sack to the weigher, who transferred to it four hundred dollars from the sacks of the two losers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter III] Reference

He's a weigher in a saloon, a gambling-house employee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Winds of Chance] Reference

The weigher stood, notebook in hand, waiting for me to act.    From Wordnik.com.  [City of Endless Night] Reference

A woman or a non-resident may be appointed a weigher of coal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference

The problem is, I am still a perpetual food measurer / weigher.    From Wordnik.com.  [WordPress.com News] Reference

English finance, when Glenwilliam was the young check-weigher of a large.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coryston Family A Novel] Reference

Custom House as weigher and gauger, at a salary of twelve hundred dollars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nathaniel Hawthorne] Reference

A woman or a non - resident mav be appointed a weigher of coal, 1902, 159.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference

As in receiving, so in paying money, a public weigher of money must be employed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07] Reference

"Oh, you don't need to show it to me," Shorty said, as they walked to the weigher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoke Bellew] Reference

He is the weigher, the philosopher among the gods, the lord of writing, of art and of learning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

He had stolen into the courtyard to hold a tryst with the fair daughter of the master-weigher in the Im.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margery — Complete] Reference

Automatically test the operation of the drop-through metal detector mounted beneath your Ishida weigher.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Sarkozy to make TV response on finance scandal] Reference

The factors wanted to weigh with our English weights, which he would by no means agree to, the weigher of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08] Reference

Early in January, 1839, Hawthorne took up his new duties as weigher and gauger in the Boston Custom House.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nathaniel Hawthorne] Reference

At first it seemed I had discovered a way to defeat that limitation -- but there was the weigher to be considered.    From Wordnik.com.  [City of Endless Night] Reference

Now that you are becoming a professional weigher of books yourself, you ought to be acquainted with these gentlemen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance] Reference

The 24-head multihead weigher is divided into two sections of 12 heads, each capable of acting as a separate weigher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news] Reference

Trays then pass to the Ishida multihead weigher, one side of which is handling the prawns and the other the courgettes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news] Reference

Bancroft, George, appoints Hawthorne weigher and ganger in Boston Custom House; offers Hawthorne a clerkship in Charlestown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nathaniel Hawthorne] Reference

At the beginning of the year 1839 he received, through political interest, an appointment as weigher and gauger in the Boston.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series)] Reference

The assayer and weigher of the royal treasury received four hundred pesos and one hundred fanegas of rice in the husk per year.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636] Reference

Shorty carried the sack and the paper across the room and handed them to the weigher, who sat behind a large pair of gold-scales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoke Bellew] Reference

Hawthorne was now a weigher and gauger in the Boston Custom House, one of the most laborious positions in the government service.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne] Reference

The assayer and weigher of the royal treasury of this city shall serve for two hundred and fifty pesos per annum, without any ration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636] Reference