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To grow broad; to become broader or wider. The broadening sun appears. Wordsworth.

That which is borne or carried; a load. Plants with goodly burden bowing. Shak.

One who loads; a oppressor.

Burdensome. [Obs.] "Burdenous taxations." Shak.

e; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive. The debt immense of endless gratitude So burdensome. Milton.

An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory. Shak.

The act or state of declining or sinking. [Obs.] Now was the sun in western cadence low. Milton.

families; distinction between the members of a family according to their ages. Marks of cadency (Her.), bearings indicating the position of the bearer as older or younger son, or as a descendant of an older or younger son. See Difference (Her.).

A species of inferior carpet imported from the Levant. McElrath.

Falling. [R.] "Cadent tears." Shak.

flourish or flight of ornament in the course of a piece, commonly just before the final cadence.

A sofa having a seat at each end at right angles to the main seats.

Heated to whiteness; glowing with heat. "A candent vessel." Boyle.

To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel.

Having the surface hardened, as iron tools.

The act or process of converting the surface of iron into steel. Ure.

A clay tobacco pipe, with a long tube. [Slang, Eng.] There was a small wooden table placed in front of the smoldering fire, with decanters, a jar of tobacco, and two long churchwardens. W. Black.

The office of a churchwarden.

Denudation around or in the neighborhood of an object. Hills of circumdenudation, hills which have been produced by surface erosion; the elevations which have been left, after denudation of a mass of high ground. Jukes.

Shutting; confining; drawing together; as, a claudent muscle. [R.] Jonson