Sc. Obs. Also sowrcharge. [Variant (formed by substitution of prefix SUR-) of SURCHARGE, sense 1, or sucharge (see quot. 1489 below, and Cath. Angl., 371/1 ‘A Sucharge, impomentum’).] An additional or second dish or course. Also fig.
1489. Barbour’s Bruce, XVI. 458 (Edinb. MS.). That sowrchargis [Camb. MS. sucharge, ed. Hart subcharge] to chargand wes.
c. 1500. Kennedy, Passion of Christ, 258. Till all his sair he soucht na saw bot ane, The quhilk wes ded, as surcharge till his sorrow.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, lxvii. 19. Off quhais subchettis [v.r. quhois surcharge] sour is the sals.
