"witherweight" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From wither- (“counter-”) + weight. Compare Middle English witherweȝen (“to counter-weight, counter-balance”).",
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          "ref": "c1665, Sel. Biog. I 265.",
          "text": "It is good to have a speciall care that gifts come not in the ballance with grace; for that is too gross a wither-weight. Lay by the painted case when you weigh the jewell; […]"
        },
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          "ref": "1672, M. Bruce Rattling Dry Bones 12.",
          "text": "He puts it ay so upon their hand that he gives them it with a wother weight; […]"
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          "ref": "1822, James Hogg, The three perils of man; or, War, women, and witchcraft - Page 317",
          "text": "So, upon the whole, you judge that the balance preponderates on our side just now ?\" \" I should think sae, Sire, when sic a clod as this castle of Roxburgh is thrown into the bucket. It is nae witherweight this for the end of a weigh-bauk.",
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        "A counterbalancing weight; counterweight."
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        "(UK dialectal, Scotland) A counterbalancing weight; counterweight."
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          "word": "wither weight"
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          "word": "widder wecht"
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          "word": "wodderweght"
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      "ipa": "/ˈwɪðə(ɹ)ˌweɪt/"
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  "word": "witherweight"
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          "text": "It is good to have a speciall care that gifts come not in the ballance with grace; for that is too gross a wither-weight. Lay by the painted case when you weigh the jewell; […]"
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          "text": "So, upon the whole, you judge that the balance preponderates on our side just now ?\" \" I should think sae, Sire, when sic a clod as this castle of Roxburgh is thrown into the bucket. It is nae witherweight this for the end of a weigh-bauk.",
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  "word": "witherweight"
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