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• Weir

  ·noun ·Alt. of <<Wear>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• weir

  1) sea-wrack, or alga-marina. Northumb. From the old Saxon WAAR. The Thanet-men, according to Somner...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Lock-weir

  ·noun A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber. ...

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• hebbing-weir

  Contrivances for taking fish at ebbing-water. ...

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• Mitchell, Silas Weir

  M.D., LL.D. (b. 1830) American poet, novelist, and physician. Hephzibah Guinness (1880), Roland Bl...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin