Charge

1. A load or burder laid upon a person or thing.
2. A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust.
3. Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty.
4. Heed; care; anxiety; trouble.
5. Harm.
6. An order; a mandate or command; an injunction.
7. 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.
8. An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged.
9. Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural.
10. The price demanded for a thing or service.
11. 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.
12. 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
13. 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.
14. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge.
15. (Far.) A sort of plaster or ointment.
16. (Her.) A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8.
17. Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also charre.
18. Weight; import; value.
Back charge .
See under Back, a.
Bursting charge . (a) (Mil.)
The charge which bursts a shell, etc.
Charge and discharge (Equity Practice),
the old mode or form of taking an account before a master in chancery.
Charge sheet ,
the paper on which are entered at a police station all arrests and accusations.
To sound the charge ,
to give the signal for an attack.