charge (charj)

[ ME. cark, a load, anxiety, mod. E. cark, anxiety), = Sp. cargo (>E. cargo ), a load, = Pg. cargo, a charge, office, It. carico, carco, a load, etc. (see car go); from the verb.] 1. A load; a weight; a burden: used either literally or figuratively. Of fruit it (the tree] bore so ripe a charge That alle men it might fede. Gower, Conf. Amant., I. 137. It is noo worschip, but a charge, lords chip to taaste. Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. É. T. S.), p. 87. 'Tis a great charge to come under one body's hand. Shak ., M. W. of W., i. 4. 2. The quantity of anything which an apparatus, as a gun, an electric battery, etc., is in anything bought or any service rendered; an entry; the debit side of an account.9. A duty enjoined upon or intrusted to one; care; custody; oversight. I gave my brother Hanani charge over Jerusalem. Neh. vii. 2. He inquired many things, as well concerning the princes which had the charge of the city, whether they were in hope to defend the same. Knolles, Hist. Turks. A hard division, when the harmle sheep Must leave their lambs to hungry wolves in charge . Fairfax . 10. Anything committed to another's custody, care, concern, or management; hence, specifically, a parish or congregation committed to the spiritual care of a pastor: as, he removed to a new charge. He hath shook hands with time; his funeral urn Shall be my charge. Ford , Broken Heart, v. 2. Sure you have injur'd Her, and Phylax too; For she's my Charge , and you shall find it so. J. Beaumont, Psyche, ii. 121. He will enter on a system of regular pastoral visiting among his charge -will explore his field to its utmost limits. W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 324. 11t. Heed; attention. Chaucer. To doe this to any purpose, will require both charge , patience and experience. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's True Travels, II. 85. 12t. A matter of importance, or for consideration; importance; value. To him that meneth wel, it were no charge. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1429. Because... the sayd Chest is of charge , we desire you to haue a spec i all regard vnto it. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 341. 13. An order; an injunction; a mandate; a command. This Prince [Richard I.] not favouring the Jews, as his Father had done, had given a strict Charge , that no Jew should be admitted to be a Spectator of the Solemnity. Baker , Chronicles, p. 62. 14. (a) An addre delivered by a bishop to the clergy of his diocese, or in ordination services by a clergyman to the candidate receiving ordination, or to the congregation or church receiving him as pastor; also, any similar addre delivered for the purpose of giving special instructions or advice. The bishop has recommended this author in his charge to the clergy. Dryden. (b) An addre delivered by a judge to a jury at the close of a trial, instructing them as to the legal points, the weight of evidence, etc., affecting their verdict in the case: as, the judge's charge bore hard upon the prisoner. IMG:content-0167.png:[blocks in formation] Expensivene ; cost; costline . Whitlock; Boyle. IMG:content-0168.png:[blocks in formation] O the wild charge they made! Tennyson, Charge of the Light Brigade. 18. An order or a signal to make such an attack: as, the trumpeters sounded the charge . Gives the hot charge and bids them do their liking. Shak., Lucrece, 1. 434. 19t. The position of a weapon held in readine for attack or encounter. Their armed staves in charge . Shak ., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 1. 20. In her ., a bearing, or any figure borne or represented on an escutcheon, whether on the field or on an ordinary. The ancient charges were far more simple than the modern, and this is so generally the case that the age of an achievement may almost be known by its relative simplicity; thus a shield simply divided into a few large parts, that is, charged with ord i naries and subordinaries only, is generally older than one charged with mullets, allerions, and the like; and a shield having only these is generally older than one having more pictorial representations. 21. Of dogs: (a) The act of lying down. ( b ) The word of command given to a dog to lie at great cost. Ascham. chargeantt, a. [ME., ous. charioteering frugality; sparingne ; parsimony; disposition to withhold or refrain from bestowing.-21. Nicety; scrupulousne . I will consent to act any villainy against him, that may not sully the charine of our honesty. Shak ., M. W. of W., ii. 1. charinid (kar'i-nid), n. A snake of the family Charinida. Chaucer, Melibeus. Charinidæ (ka-rin'i-de), n. pl. [NL., +-ida.] A family of peropodous serpents with toothle premaxillaries, and without post charged (chärjd), (chärjd), p. a. [Pp. of charge, v.] 1. In her.: (a) Bearing a charge: as, a fe e charged with three roses. (b) Serving as a charge: as, three roses charged upon a fe e.- frontal, super orbital, or coronoid bones. Only 2 2. Overcharged or exaggerated. [Rare.] chargé d'affaires (shar-zha da far'); pl. chargés a' da-far'). [F., chargés d'affaires (shär-zhā' da (shär-zhā' da-far'). charged with affairs: chargé, pp. of charger, charge; de, of foreign ministers, and are not accredited to the sovereign, but to the department for foreign affairs. See am ba ador. IMG:content-0169.png:[blocks in formation]