Obs. [LYING ppl. a.1] a. A free weight placed in a scale, as distinguished from the hanging weight attached to a spring balance or a steelyard. b. = AVOIRDUPOIS.
1454. Rolls of Parlt., V. 275/1. [That no person buy wool by the fleece] nor weyed by the awncell, but only by the lying weight, after XIIII li to the stoon.
1502. Arnolde, Chron. (1811), 191. Ther beth iij maner weyghtȝ that is to wele troy weyght, auncell weyghtis, and lyggynge weyght. Ibid. The Lygginge weyght … therby is boughte and solde alle maner of Marchaundise … as is vsed to be solde be weyght, and of this weyght xvi vuncis made a pound and C. and xij li. is an C.
1545. Rates Custom-ho., d v b. Lyinge wayghte. Thys Lyinge and Haburdy peyse is all one.
