BURDEN

noun the drone of a bagpipe.

2. burden ·noun a club.

3. burden ·noun a birth.

4. burden ·noun that which is borne or carried; a load.

5. burden ·noun the tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.

6. burden ·noun the proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.

7. burden ·noun a fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.

8. burden ·noun that which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.

9. burden ·vt to impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).

10. burden ·noun the capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden.

11. burden ·vt to encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load.

12. burden ·vt to oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes.

13. burden ·noun the verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. hence: that which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer.