incumbrance

One that has been brought up in a genteel, frugal and handsome manner, either a Maid or Widow, so they have no incumbrances.”

A sardine tin, for example, has been opened, and it seems now to be only an incumbrance and of absolutely no value.

When they are right they afford a portable pleasure, which one may travel or labor with without any trouble or incumbrance.

Many of these appliances, when it comes to real, practical field-work, are soon abandoned as useless incumbrances; and the greater the experience, the simpler will be the paraphernalia.

Some, like the Fox, have even larger circumstances than they know what to do with, insomuch that they are rather a charge and incumbrance than of any true use and pleasure to them.