transitive. To add a weight to; to load, burden; (figurative) to weigh down, to oppress. Also (in quot. 1573 –4): to provide with weights. Now rare…

In extended use and figurative. transitive. To load, burden, weight, weigh down. Now rare.

transitive. = load, v., in various senses.

To add or affix a weight to, to add to the weight of (something); to be a weight or burden upon; to bear down or oppress with a material weight…

transitive. To add weight to; to weight, load, burden; to weigh down, oppress; to incline or sway by or as by weight. Cf. peise, v. 6a. Obsolete.

transitive. To load or weigh; to render gravid, to impregnate.

transitive. To place a weight upon; to weight, load.

To load. Obsolete.

To load with a weight; to supply with an additional weight; to make weighty. Also with down.