chargeability (charjabiliti)

[ chargeable (chär ja-bl), a. [ The town is an inseparable part of the State, and charge able with many State duties, and unle properly governed may cause mischief to the commonwealth at large. N. A. Rev. , CXXXIX. 509. (c) Capable of being laid to one's charge; that may be imputed to one. Some fault chargeable upon him. South . His failure, though partly chargeable on himself, was le so than on circumstances beyond his control. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 15. (d) Subject to accusation; liable to be accused. Your papers would be chargeable with something worse than indelicacy; they would be immoral. IMG:content-0171.png:[blocks in formation] He rode a noble white charger, whose burnished caparisons dazzled the eye with their splendor. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 19. 3. In mining, an implement for charging horizontal bore-holes with powder.-4. In gun., a contrivance for measuring and placing in a gun a certain quantity or charge of powder or shot. charger (chär'jer), n. [ He sowppes alle this sesone with sevene knave childre, Choppid in a chargour of chalke whytt sylver. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1026. Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger . Mat. xiv. 8. in social and private life. The Roman chariot was called a biga, a trig a, or a quadriga, according as it was drawn by two, three, or four horses, all abreast. The triumphal chariot was a quadriga; it was very richly orna Greek Chariot. Pelops and Hippodame i a.- From a red-figured vase. mented, and sometimes made of ivory. Greek and Roman chariots for war and racing were usually closed in front and open behind, and without seats. The war-chariots of the ancient Persians and Britons were armed with weapons like scythe-blades or sickles projecting from the hubs, and are hence called scythe-chariots. And also suche another Charyot , with suche Hoostes, ordeynd and arrayd, gon with the Empre e, upon another syde. Mandeville , Travels, p. 242. Thy grand captain Antony Shall set thee on triumphant chariots , and Put garlands on thy head. Shak ., A. and C., iii. 1. 2. In modern times: (a) A somewhat indefinite name for a more or le stately four-wheeled carriage. All this while Queen Mary had contented her self to be Queen by Proclamation; but now that things were some- thing settled, she proceeds to her Coronation; for, on the last of September, she rode in her Chariot thro' London towards Westminster. Baker , Chronicles, p. 317. (b) A pleasure-carriage, of different forms. The lady charged the boy to remember, as a means of identifying the expected green chariot , that it would have a coachman with a gold-laced hat on the box. Dickens, Nicholas Nickle by, vi. chariot (char'i-ot), v. [ 2t. In England, in the middle ages, a servant To convey in a chariot. [Rare.] or officer of the household whose duty was to bear the meats to table at banquets. I was that cheef charge our , I bar flesch for folkes feste; Ihesu crist vre saueour He fedeth bot he lest and meste. Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 136.