Word Meanings - LOADING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The act of putting a load on or into. 2. A load; cargo; burden. Shak.
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- PUTTYROOT
An American orchidaceous plant which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called - BURDENER
One who loads; a oppressor. - PUTTER-ON
An instigator. Shak. - CARGOOSE
A species of grebe ; the crested grebe. - PUTT
A stroke made on the putting green to play the ball into a hole. - PUTTING GREEN
The green, or plot of smooth turf, surrounding a hole. "The term putting green shall mean the ground within twenty yards of the hole, excepting hazards." Golf Rules. - PUTTEE
See GAITER - PUTTOCK
The European kite. The buzzard. The marsh harrier. - PUTTER
1. One who puts or plates. 2. Specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, and the like. - BURDENOUS
Burdensome. "Burdenous taxations." Shak. - BURDENSOME
Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive. The debt immense of endless gratitude So burdensome. Milton. Syn. -- Heavy; weighty; cumbersome; onerous; grievous; oppressive; troublesome. -- Bur"den*some*ly, adv. -- Bur"den*some*ness, - CARGO
The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight. Cargoes of food or clothing. E. Everett. Note: The term cargo, in law, is usually applied to goods only, and not - PUTTY-FACED
White-faced; -- used contemptuously. Clarke. - PUTTY
A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes. Putty - BURDEN
The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin. (more info) birthen, birden, AS. byredhen; akin to Icel. byredhi, Dan. byrde, Sw. börda, G. bürde, OHG. burdi, Goth. baúr, fr. the root of E. bear, AS. 1. That which is borne - PUTTIER
One who putties; a glazier. - PUTTING
The throwing of a heavy stone, shot, etc., with the hand raised or extended from the shoulder; -- originally, a Scottish game. Putting stone, a heavy stone used in the game of putting. - SUPERCARGO
An officer or person in a merchant ship, whose duty is to manage the sales, and superintend the commercial concerns, of the voyage. - OVERBURDEN
To load with too great weight or too much care, etc. Sir P. Sidney. - UNBURDEN
1. To relieve from a burden. 2. To throw off, as a burden; to unload. - FABURDEN
A species of counterpoint with a drone bass. A succession of chords of the sixth. 2. A monotonous refrain. Holland. - SPUTTER
1. To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking. 2. To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva. They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell