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