(UK dialectal, Scotland) A counterbalancing weight; counterweight.
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; […]
He puts it ay so upon their hand that he gives them it with a wother weight; […]
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