To add weight to; burden.
The measure of the force with which bodies tend toward the earth's center.
A definite mass used, as of metal in weighing.
Any heavy mass; efficacy; preponderance; oppressiveness.
" Well; she has thrown her weight against me with the King. – Oddsfish! by Robert Hugh Benson
There was a certain dignity in his speech that gave it weight. – The Bars of Iron by Ethel May Dell