<OL TYPE="1"><LI>a burden, load<OL TYPE="a"><LI>of the freight or lading of a ship</OL><LI>metaph.<OL TYPE="a"><LI>of burdensome rites<LI>of the obligations Christ lays upon his followers, and styles a "burden" by way of the contrast to the precepts of the Pharisees, the observance of which was most oppressive<LI>faults of the conscience which oppress the soul</OL></OL>