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Weight :: Weight (v. t.) Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business..

Last :: Last (n.) A load; a heavy burden; hence, a certain weight or measure, generally estimated at 4,000 lbs., but varying for different articles and in different countries. In England, a last of codfish, white herrings, meal, or ashes, is twelve barrels; a last of corn, ten quarters, or eighty bushels, in some parts of England, twenty-one quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels, each containing 100 lbs; of red herrings, twenty cades, or 20,000; of hides, twelve dozen; of leather, twenty dickers;

Cart :: Cart (v. i.) To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter.

Incubus :: Incubus (n.) Any oppressive encumbrance or burden; anything that prevents the free use of the faculties.

Disburthen :: Disburthen (v. t.) To disburden; to relieve of a load.

Beneath :: Beneath (prep.) Under, in relation to something that is superior, or that oppresses or burdens..

Lumber :: Lumber (v. i.) To move heavily, as if burdened..

Burden :: Burden (v. t.) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable)..

Ballet :: Ballet (n.) A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers..

Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel..

Load :: Load (v.) That which burdens, oppresses, or grieves the mind or spirits; as, a load of care..

Overcharge :: Overcharge (n.) An excessive load or burden.

Chargeable :: Chargeable (a.) Serving to create expense; costly; burdensome.

Onerary :: Onerary (a.) Fitted for, or carrying, a burden..

Chargeous :: Chargeous (a.) Burdensome.

Unload :: Unload (v. t.) To discharge or remove, as a load or a burden; as, to unload the cargo of a vessel..

Unburden :: Unburden (v. t.) To relieve from a burden.

Bourdon :: Bourdon (n.) A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See Burden (of a song.).

Exonerate :: Exonerate (v. t.) To unload; to disburden; to discharge.

Encumbrance :: Encumbrance (n.) That which encumbers; a burden which impedes action, or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment. See Incumbrance..

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