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

One who loads; a oppressor.

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

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

To rid of a burden; to free from a load borne or from something oppressive; to unload; to disencumber; to relieve. He did it to disburden a conscience. Feltham. My mediations . . . will, I hope, be more calm, being thus disburdened. Hammond.

A species of counterpoint with a drone bass.

To load with too great weight or too much care, etc. Sir P. Sidney.

Too burdensome.

To relieve from a burden.

To fill to satiety; to stuff full; to clog; to overload; to burden. See Cloy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

r; explicable. [R.] True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden but a privilege. B. Whichcote.

young men. Shak. For this, in rags accoutered are they seen. Dryden. Accoutered with his burden and his staff. Wordsworth.

To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge; -- now followed by of before the charge, formerly by from; as, the jury acquitted the prisoner; we acquit a man of evil intentions.

ble grievously; to torment. They did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. Exod. i. 11. That which was the worst now least afflicts me. Milton.

To alleviate; to lighten, as a burden or a trouble. [Obs.] Wyclif.

One who sustains a great burden.

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

To suffer, as in carrying a burden. But man is born to bear. Pope.

One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries. "Bearers of burdens." 2 Chron. ii. 18. "The bearer of unhappy news." Dryden.

Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden. A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast. Prov. xii. 10.