Charge
- n. Weight; import; value.
- v. t. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
- 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.
- v. t. To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for.
- v. t. To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a barrel for apples.
- 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.
- v. t. To impute or ascribe; to lay to one’s charge.
- 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.
- 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.
- v. t. To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding.
- 1n. 1 Weight; import; value.
- 1v. t. 1 To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.