charge

1. v. t. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. Source: opted

2. v. t. 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. Source: opted

3. v. t. To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for. Source: opted

4. v. t. To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a barrel for apples. Source: opted

5. v. t. 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. Source: opted

6. v. t. To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge. Source: opted

7. v. t. 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. Source: opted

8. v. t. 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. Source: opted

9. v. t. To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding. Source: opted

10. v. t. 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. Source: opted

11. v. t. To call to account; to challenge. Source: opted

12. v. t. To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack. Source: opted

13. v. i. To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed bayonets. Source: opted

14. v. i. To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods. Source: opted

15. v. i. To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases. Source: opted

16. v. i. To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by a sportsman to a dog. Source: opted

17. v. t. A load or burder laid upon a person or thing. Source: opted

18. v. t. A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust. Source: opted

19. v. t. Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty. Source: opted

20. v. t. Heed; care; anxiety; trouble. Source: opted

21. v. t. Harm. Source: opted

22. v. t. An order; a mandate or command; an injunction. Source: opted

23. v. t. 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. Source: opted

24. v. t. An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged. Source: opted

25. v. t. Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural. Source: opted

26. v. t. The price demanded for a thing or service. Source: opted

27. v. t. 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. Source: opted

28. v. t. 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 Source: opted

29. v. t. 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. Source: opted

30. v. t. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge. Source: opted

31. v. t. A soft of plaster or ointment. Source: opted

32. v. t. A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8. Source: opted

33. n. Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also charre. Source: opted

34. n. Weight; import; value. Source: opted

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