a. [f. WEIGH v.1 + -ABLE.] That can be weighed; heavy enough (or reckoned as heavy enough) to be weighed in scales.

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1429.  Rolls of Parlt., IV. 349/1. Woll, and al maner þinge weiable.

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1570.  Dee, Math. Pref., c jb. Of euery one, the Content knowen, in your least waight, that is wayable.

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1616.  Burgh Rec. Stirling (1887), I. 144. All weyabill merchand waris, sic as lint, hemp, irn, woll.

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1796.  T. Twining, Trav. Amer. (1894), 161. It was applicable … in every wholesale warehouse of weighable goods.

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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.

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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.

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1885.  Leeds Mercury, 5 Aug., 3/2. Where he found a weighable quantity was in the liver.

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