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WEIGHT. A quality in natural bodies, by which they tend towards the centre of the earth. 2. Under the article Measure, (q.v.) it is said that by the constitution congress possesses the power "to fix the standard of weights and measures," and that this power has not been exercised. 3. The weights now generally used in the United States, are the same as those of England;

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