Part 1808

<blockquote>'Tis a great <b>charge</b> to come under one body's hand. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Heed; care; anxiety; trouble.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Harm.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>An order; a mandate or command; an injunction.</def>

<blockquote>The king gave <b>cherge</b> concerning Absalom. <i>2. Sam. xviii. 5.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation; <as>as, the <ex>charge</ex> of a judge to a jury; the <ex>charge</ex> of a bishop to his clergy.</as></def>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>charge</b> of confounding very different classes of phenomena. <i>Whewell.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural.</def>

<p><b>10.</b> <def>The price demanded for a thing or service.</def>

<p><b>11.</b> <def>An entry or a account of that which is due from one party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; <as>as, a <ex>charge</ex> in an account book</as>.</def>

<p><b>12.</b> <def>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</def>

<p><b>13.</b> <def>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>as, to sound the <ex>charge</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>Never, in any other war afore, gave the Romans a hotter <b>charge</b> upon the enemies. <i>Holland.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The <b>charge</b> of the light brigade. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>14.</b> <def>A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; <as>as, to bring a weapon to the <ex>charge</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>15.</b> <fld>(Far.)</fld> <def>A soft of plaster or ointment.</def>

<p><b>16.</b> <fld>(Her.)</fld> <def>A bearing. See <er>Bearing</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, 8.</def>

<p><b>17.</b> <ety>[Cf. <er>Charre</er>.]</ety> <def>Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also <altname>charre</altname>.</def>

<p><b>18.</b> <def>Weight; import; value.</def>

<blockquote>Many suchlike "as's" of great <b>charge</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Back charge</col>. <cd>See under <er>Back</er>, <tt>a.</tt></cd> -- <col>Bursting charge</col>. <sd>(a </sd><fld>(Mil.)</fld> <cd>The charge which bursts a shell, etc.</cd> <sd>(b </sd><fld>(Mining)</fld> <cd>A small quantity of fine powder to secure the ignition of a charge of coarse powder in blasting.</cd> -- <col>Charge and discharge</col> <fld>(Equity Practice)</fld>, <cd>the old mode or form of taking an account before a master in chancery.</cd> -- <col>Charge sheet</col>, <cd>the paper on which are entered at a police station all arrests and accusations.</cd> -- <col>To sound the charge</col>, <cd>to give the signal for an attack.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Care; custody; trust; management; office; expense; cost; price; assault; attack; onset; injunction; command; order; mandate; instruction; accusation; indictment.</syn>

<h1>Chargeable</h1> <Xpage=241>

<hw>Charge"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; <as>as, a duty <ex>chargeable</ex> on iron; a fault <ex>chargeable</ex> on a man.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; <as>as, revenues <ex>chargeable</ex> with a claim; a man <ex>chargeable</ex> with murder.</as></def>