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SURCH`ARGE, v.t.
SURCH`ARGE, n. An excessive load or burden; a load greater than can be well borne.
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, 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.
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 than he has a
right to.
To print or
write a surcharge on (a postage stamp).
A charge over the usual or legal
rates.
Something printed or written on a postage
stamp to give it a new legal effect, as a new valuation, a place, a
date, etc.; also (Colloq.), a stamp with a surcharge.
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