noun. A burden.

Older form of burden.

noun. Older form of burden.

noun. An erroneous form of burden, by confusion with burden and burden.

See burden.

noun. The tonnage of a ship based on the number of tuns of wine that it could carry in its holds.

noun. Archaic spelling of burden.

verb. Archaic spelling of burden.

verb. weight down with a load

noun. a variant of `burden'

"I told her, as to her child, which she called her burthen, it should be no burthen to me; as to the rest she might do as she pleased; it might however do me this favor, that I should have no more lyings-in at the rate of £136 at a time, as I found she intended it should be now."

burden  load  loading  

collet  coming-on  hour-and-a-half  indissolubility  interlacement  

burden  

burthened  burthening  burthens