a. [f. WEIGH v.1 + -ABLE.] That can be weighed; heavy enough (or reckoned as heavy enough) to be weighed in scales.
1429. Rolls of Parlt., IV. 349/1. Woll, and al maner þinge weiable.
1570. Dee, Math. Pref., c jb. Of euery one, the Content knowen, in your least waight, that is wayable.
1616. Burgh Rec. Stirling (1887), I. 144. All weyabill merchand waris, sic as lint, hemp, irn, woll.
1796. T. Twining, Trav. Amer. (1894), 161. It was applicable in every wholesale warehouse of weighable goods.
1854. Dickens, 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.
1878. N. 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.
1885. Leeds Mercury, 5 Aug., 3/2. Where he found a weighable quantity was in the liver.