Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SUR-CHARGE, v.t. [Fr. surcharger; sur and charge.]

1. To overload; to overburden; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon. Your head reclin'd, as hiding grief from view, / Droops like a rose surcharg'd with morning dew. – Dryden.
2. In law, to overstock; to put more cattle into a common than the person has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain. – Blackstone.