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Word Meanings - SUPERCHARGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To charge upon another bearing; as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess.

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  • CHARGEANT
    Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • BEARISH
    Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
  • 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.
  • BEARWARD
    A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak.
  • BEAR'S-BREECH
    See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior.
  • BEAR'S-EAR
    A kind of primrose , so called from the shape of the leaf.
  • BEARDLESSNESS
    The state or quality of being destitute of beard.
  • BEARABLE
    Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. -- Bear"a*bly, adv.
  • BEAR
    1. To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness. This age to blossom, and the next to bear. Dryden. 2. To suffer, as in carrying a burden. But man is born to bear. Pope. 3. To endure with patience; to be patient. I can not,
  • SUPERCHARGE
    A bearing charged upon another bearing.
  • BEARDIE
    The bearded loach of Europe.
  • BEARDLESS
    1. Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful. 2. Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat.
  • BEARING CLOTH
    A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. Shak.
  • CHARGELESS
    Free from, or with little, charge.
  • CHARGEABLENESS
    The quality of being chargeable or expensive. Whitelocke.
  • ANOTHER
    1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
  • BEARDED
    Having a beard. "Bearded fellow." Shak. "Bearded grain." Dryden. Bearded vulture, Bearded eagle. See Lammergeir. -- Bearded tortoise. See Matamata.
  • WATER-BEARER
    The constellation Aquarius.
  • MISCHARGE
    To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
  • SHIELD-BEARER
    Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
  • ENCHARGE
    To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
  • SEABEARD
    A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
  • DOWNBEAR
    To bear down; to depress.
  • BLUEBEARD
    The hero of a mediƦval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it
  • 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.
  • UNCHARGE
    1. To free from a charge or load; to unload. Wyclif. 2. To free from an accusation; to make no charge against; to acquit. Shak.
  • ANT-BEAR
    An edentate animal of tropical America , living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.
  • GRAYBEARD
    An old man. Shak.
  • MISBEAR
    To carry improperly; to carry wrongly; to misbehave. Chaucer.
  • FORKBEARD
    A European fish , having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard. The European forked hake or hake's-dame ; -- also called great forked beard.
  • PALLBEARER
    One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.
  • UNDERBEARER
    One who supports or sustains; especially, at a funeral, one of those who bear the copse, as distinguished from a bearer, or pallbearer, who helps to hold up the pall.
  • ABEARANCE
    Behavior. Blackstone.
  • SURCHARGEMENT
    The act of surcharging; also, surcharge, surplus. Daniel.

 

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