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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load;
to fill. |
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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. |
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To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for. |
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To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars
a barrel for apples. |
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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. |
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To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge. |
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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. |
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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. |
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To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an
architectural member with a molding. |
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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. |
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To call to account; to challenge. |
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To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack. |
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To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed
bayonets. |
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To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods. |
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To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases. |
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To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given
by a sportsman to a dog. |
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A load or burder laid upon a person or thing. |
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A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care,
custody, or management of another; a trust. |
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Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office;
responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty. |
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Heed; care; anxiety; trouble. |
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Harm. |
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An order; a mandate or command; an injunction. |
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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. |
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An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation;
indictment; specification of something alleged. |
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Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents,
taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural. |
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The price demanded for a thing or service. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring
a weapon to the charge. |
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A soft of plaster or ointment. |
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A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8. |
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Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy
pounds; -- called also charre. |
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Weight; import; value. |
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