Burden or Burthen, vb., 1) to load; a) absol. “overborne with --ing grief,” H6A II, 5, 10. b) trans.: “the colt that's backed and --ed being young,” Ven. 419. “wild music --s every bough,” Sonn. 102, 11. Shr. II, 203. H6B III, 2, 320. Rom. I, 4, 23. Followed by with: “b. our remembrance with a heaviness,” Tp. V, 199. Err. I, 1, 108. II, 1, 36.
2) to charge: “this is false he --s me withal,” Err. V, 209. Err. V, 209
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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