burthen

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Archaic form of burden.

   “Nor less, I trust, To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened:”

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

   “It was a vessel of about seventy tons burthen, and shaped something like a Chinese junk.”

3. isim Rarely used musical tempo, meaning slow and ponderous (e.g., moving under a burden); similar to largo.
4. isim A section of music with the tempo mark burthen.
5. fiil Archaic form of burden.

   “he other men were variously burthened; some carrying picks and shovels – for that had been the very first necessary they brought ashore from the Hispaniola – others laden with pork, bread, and brandy for the midday meal.”