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To charge (a bearing) upon another bearing; as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess.

To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon. Four charged two, and two surcharged one. Spenser. Your head reclined, as hiding grief from view, Droops like a rose surcharged with morning dew. Dryden.

The act of surcharging; also, surcharge, surplus. [Obs.] Daniel.

One who surcharges.

A complex sugar, as raffinose, yielding by hydrolysis three simple sugar molecules.

See Trocar.

To free from a charge or load; to unload. Wyclif.

To throw out of a chariot. Pope.

Not charitable; contrary to charity; severe in judging; harsh; censorious; as, uncharitable opinions or zeal. Addison. -- Un*char"i*ta*ble*ness, n. -- Un*char"i*ta*bly, adv.

Uncharitableness. Tennyson. 'T were much uncharity in you. J. Webster.

To release from a charm, fascination, or secret power; to disenchant. Beau. & Fl.

To remove from a charnel house; to raise from the grave; to exhume. Byron.

To charge below or under; to charge less than is usual or suitable fro; as, to undercharge goods or services.

Characterizing that kind of reasoning which derives propositions from the observation of facts, or by generalizations from facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning.

Characterizing that kind of reasoning which deduces consequences from definitions formed, or principles assumed, or which infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of a posteriori.

Ivory black or animal charcoal. Weale.

Characterized by aberration.

Characterized by abirritation or debility.

Cast down; low-lying. [Obs.] From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.

A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.