Verb

(head)

To be handicapped by an extra burden, as when one rides or runs.

To have influence.

Your excuses don't carry weight with me.

* 1948 Rollo H. Myers, Erik Satie, D. Dobson, p31

When M. Paladilhe was elected my friends said to me: 'Never mind; later on he'll vote for you, Maestro, and his support will carry a lot of weight' . I never had his vote, nor his support, nor his weight.

* 2002 Elizabeth Moynihan, Destiny's Whisper, Writers Club Press, p376

Manning Senior carries a lot of weight around here, he has a lot of friends ; a lot of professional clout and can obviously get things done just barely within the lines of legality.

* 2010 Gordon Ryan, American Voices: State of Rebellion, p247

A recommendation from him carries a lot of weight around here.

Verb

(en verb)

To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); be intent upon; mean; design; plan; purpose.

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To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard.

(obsolete) To stretch to extend; distend.

To strain; make tense.

(obsolete) To intensify; strengthen.

*, Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.139:

Dotage, fatuity, or follyis for the most part intended or remitted in particular men, and thereupon some are wiser than others […].

To apply with energy.

To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey.

To design mechanically or artistically; ; mold.

To pretend; counterfeit; simulate.