Bible Dictionaries
Surcharge

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. t.) To print or write a surcharge on (a postage stamp).

(2):

(n.) An overcharge; an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can well be borne.

(3):

(n.) The showing an omission, as in an account, for which credit ought to have been given.

(4):

(n.) The putting, by a commoner, of more beasts on the common than he has a right to.

(5):

(v. t.) 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.

(6):

(n.) A charge over the usual or legal rates.

(7):

(n.) 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.

(8):

(v. t.) To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.

(9):

(v. t.) To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Surcharge'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/surcharge.html. 1828.