BURDENER
Bur"den*er, n.
Defn: One who loads; a oppressor.
BURDENOUS
Bur"den*ous, a.
Defn: Burdensome. [Obs.] "Burdenous taxations." Shak.
BURDENSOME
Bur"den*some, a.
Defn: 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, n.
BURDOCK
Bur"dock, n. Etym: [Bur + dock the plant.] (Bot.)
Defn: A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.
Note: The common burdock is the Lappa officinalis.