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weye

weye is the obsolete form of weigh.

weye is the obsolete form of way.

Meaning of weigh

Verb

weigh (third-person singular simple present weighs, present participle weighing, simple past and past participle weighed)

  1. (transitive) To determine the weight of an object.
  2. (transitive) Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.
    • He weighed out two kilos of oranges for a client.
  3. (figuratively, transitive) To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
    • You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.
  4. (figuratively, intransitive, obsolete) To judge; to estimate.
    • But ſhe thereof grew proud and inſolent, / That none ſhe worthie thought to be her fere, / But ſcornd them all, that loue vnto her ment; / Yet was ſhe lou’d of many a worthy pere, / Vnworthy ſhe to be belou’d ſo dere, / That could not weigh of worthineſſe aright.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 444
  5. (transitive) To consider a subject.
  6. (copulative, intransitive, stative) To have a certain weight.
    • I weigh ten and a half stone.

See all 14 meanings of weigh

Meaning of way

Noun

way (plural ways)

  1. A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
    • Do you know the way to the airport? Come this way and I'll show you a shortcut.
  2. A means to enter or leave a place.
    • We got into the cinema through the back way.
  3. A roughly-defined geographical area.
    • If you're ever 'round this way, come over and visit me.
  4. Distance in general
    • It's a long way from here.
  5. A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
    • He's finally seen the error of his ways.
    1. (usually) A set of values and customs associated with and seen as central to the identity of a group of people.

See all 28 meanings of way

Forms of weye

Verb
third-person singular presentweyes
present participleweying
past participleweyed
pastweyed
Noun
pluralweyes

Origin of weye

See way.

Questions about weye

What is weye the obsolete form of?
Weye is the obsolete form of weigh.

Words near weye in the dictionary

  1. Weyants
  2. Weybourne
  3. Weybridge
  4. Weyburn
  5. Weycroft
  6. weye
  7. weyekin
  8. weyekins
  9. Weyenberg
  10. Weyenbergs
  11. Weyer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: weye (page history and authors); weigh (page history and authors); way (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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