Word Meanings - SURCHARGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon. Four charged two, and two surcharged one. Spenser. Your head reclined, as hiding grief from view, Droops like a rose surcharged

Additional info about word: SURCHARGE

1. To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon. Four charged two, and two surcharged one. Spenser. Your head reclined, as hiding grief from view, Droops like a rose surcharged with morning dew. Dryden. To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into, as a common, than the person has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain. Blackstone. To show an omission in for which credit ought to have been given. Story. Daniel.

Related words: (words related to SURCHARGE)

• BEASTLIHEAD
  Beastliness. Spenser.
• OVERBURDEN
  The waste which overlies good stone in a quarry. Raymond.
• BEASTLIKE
  Like a beast.
• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• SURCHARGE
  1. An overcharge; an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can well be borne. A numerous nobility causeth poverty and inconvenience in a state, for it is surcharge of expense. Bacon. The putting, by a commoner, of more beasts on the common
• CHARGE
  1. A load or burder laid upon a person or thing. 2. A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust. Note: The people of a parish or church are called the charge of the clergyman who is set over them.
• HIDING
  A flogging. Charles Reade.
• CANNON BONE
  See BONE
• RECLINING
  Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular. Recumbent. Reclining dial, a dial whose plane is inclined to the vertical line through its center. Davies & Peck .
• BEASTLINESS
  The state or quality of being beastly.
• RECLINATE
  Reclined, as a leaf; bent downward, so that the point, as of a stem or leaf, is lower than the base.
• CHARGEABLE
  1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
• OVERCHARGE
  1. To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. To fill too full; to crowd. Our language is overcharged with consonants. Addison. 3. To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price. 4.
• BEASTINGS
  See BIESTINGS
• HIDROSIS
  Excretion of sweat; perspiration. 2. Excessive perspiration; also, any skin disease characterized by abnormal perspiration.
• CANNONADE
  1. The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance. A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle
• SURCHARGEMENT
  The act of surcharging; also, surcharge, surplus. Daniel.
• OVERLOAD
  An excessive load; the excess beyond a proper load.
• CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
• HIDALGO
  A title, denoting a Spanish nobleman of the lower class. (more info) something; hijo son + algo something, fr. L.
• GLOCHIDIUM
  The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills.
• SYLPHID
  A little sylph; a young or diminutive sylph. "The place of the sylphid queen." J. R. Drake. Ye sylphs and sylphids, to your chief give ear, Fays, fairies, genii, elves, and demons, hear. Pope.
• CHIDESTER
  A female scold.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• RACHIDIAN
  Of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. Same as Rhachidian.
• ENCHARGE
  To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
• ORCHIDEOUS
  See ORCHIDACEOUS
• XANTHIDE
  A compound or derivative of xanthogen.
• AGRIEF
  In grief; amiss. Chaucer.
• APHIDOPHAGOUS
  Feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family Coccinellidæ.
• HEARTGRIEF
  Heartache; sorrow. Milton.
• CHIDER
  One who chides or quarrels. Shak.