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Beast :: Beast (n.) Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden..

Charge :: Charge (v. t.) Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural..

Discharge :: Discharge (v. i.) To throw off or deliver a load, charge, or burden; to unload; to emit or give vent to fluid or other contents; as, the water pipe discharges freely..

Allege :: Allege (v. t.) To alleviate; to lighten, as a burden or a trouble..

Load :: Load (v.) A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load..

Burden :: Burden (n.) That which is borne or carried; a load.

Last :: Last (n.) A load; a heavy burden; hence, a certain weight or measure, generally estimated at 4,000 lbs., but varying for different articles and in different countries. In England, a last of codfish, white herrings, meal, or ashes, is twelve barrels; a last of corn, ten quarters, or eighty bushels, in some parts of England, twenty-one quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels, each containing 100 lbs; of red herrings, twenty cades, or 20,000; of hides, twelve dozen; of leather, twenty dickers;

Troublesome :: Troublesome (a.) Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.

Burden :: Burden (n.) A birth.

Tax :: Tax (n.) To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money from for the support of government..

Intolerable :: Intolerable (a.) Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured; not proper or right to be allowed; insufferable; insupportable; unbearable; as, intolerable pain; intolerable heat or cold; an intolerable burden..

Lade :: Lade (v. t.) To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; -- generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object..

Cumbersome :: Cumbersome (a.) Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous..

Overlade :: Overlade (v. t.) To load with too great a cargo; to overburden; to overload.

Chargeable :: Chargeable (a.) Serving to create expense; costly; burdensome.

Ritornello :: Ritornello (n.) A short return or repetition; a concluding symphony to an air, often consisting of the burden of the song..

Shoulder :: Shoulder (v. t.) To take upon the shoulder or shoulders; as, to shoulder a basket; hence, to assume the burden or responsibility of; as, to shoulder blame; to shoulder a debt..

Light :: Light (superl.) Not heavily burdened; not deeply laden; not sufficiently ballasted; as, the ship returned light..

Insupportable :: Insupportable (a.) Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain..

Burden :: Burden (n.) A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds..

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