Charge
Definition of Charge
Pronunciation: chärj | v. t. | 1. | To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. | | 2. | To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to charge an agent. | | 3. | To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for. | | 4. | To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a barrel for apples. | | 5. | To place something to the account of as a debt; to debit, as, to charge one with goods. Also, to enter upon the debit side of an account; as, to charge a sum to one. | | 6. | To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge. | | 7. | To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against (a person or thing); to lay the responsibility (for something said or done) at the door of.If he did that wrong you charge him with. - Tennyson. | | 8. | To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine, etc. | | 9. | To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding. | | 10. | (Her.) To assume as a bearing; as, he charges three roses or; to add to or represent on; as, he charges his shield with three roses or. | | 11. | To call to account; to challenge.To charge me to an answer. - Shak. | | 12. | To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack. | | v. i. | 1. | To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed bayonets." Charge for the guns!" he said. - Tennyson. | | 2. | To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods. | | 3. | To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases. | | 4. | To squat on its belly and be still; - a command given by a sportsman to a dog. | | n. | 1. | A load or burder laid upon a person or thing. | | 2. | A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust. | | 3. | Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty. | | 4. | Heed; care; anxiety; trouble. | | 5. | Harm. | | 6. | An order; a mandate or command; an injunction. | | 7. | An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a judge to a jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy. | | 8. | An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged. | | 9. | Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; - usually in the plural. | | 10. | The price demanded for a thing or service. | | 11. | An entry or a account of that which is due from one party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; as, a charge in an account book. | | 12. | That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it at one time | | 13. | The act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy; a sudden onset or attack, as of troops, esp. cavalry; hence, the signal for attack; as, to sound the charge. | | 14. | A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge. | | 15. | (Far.) A sort of plaster or ointment. | | 16. | (Her.) A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8. | | 17. | Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; - called also charre. | | 18. | Weight; import; value.| Back charge | | See under Back, a. |
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