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Definition of Makeweight
1. Noun. Anything added to fill out a whole. "Some of the items in the collection are mere makeweights"
2. Noun. A weight added to the scale to reach a required weight.
Definition of Makeweight
1. n. That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
Definition of Makeweight
1. Noun. Something of inferior quality which is included in a shipment to make up the weight. ¹
2. Noun. Something included to add to the apparent weight or force of a argument. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Makeweight
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Makeweight
Literary usage of Makeweight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life by Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862)
"Deprive it of that moral makeweight, and it is nothing. Why should a lawyer,
accumulating, or living, by his practice, look at a judgeship of ten years t ..."
2. Journal of the Society of Arts by Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1866)
"The coal exported acts as a makeweight, to remedy in some degree coal as well as
other raw materials would bo against the essentially reciprocal nature of ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"I got engaged ; went to China for seven years in the service of a tea-company ;
came back again, and was married to the present Mrs. makeweight ; and had ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Simon Greenleaf, Simon Greenleaf Croswell (1892)
"St. 145, we held that evidence of good character is substantive, and must be
treated as such ; that it is not a simple makeweight to Le thrown in to ..."
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