To put a load or burden on or in; fill, cover, or occupy with something to be retained, supported, carried, etc.; burden; load: as, to charge a furnace, a gun, a Leyden jar, etc.; to charge an oven; to charge the mind with a principle or a message.Figuratively, to fill or burden with some emotion.To subject to a charge or financial burden.To impute or register as a debt; place on the debit side of an account: as, the goods were charged to him.To fix or ask as a price; require in exchange: as, to charge $5 a ton for coal. To fix or set down at a price named; sell at a given rate: as, to charge coal at $5 a ton.To hold liable for payment; enter a debit against: as, A charged B for the goods.To accuse: followed by with before the thing of which one is accused: as, to charge a man with theft.To lay to one's charge; impute; ascribe the responsibility of: with a thing for the object, and on, upon, to, or against before the person or thing to which something is imputed: as, I charge the guilt of this on you; the accident must be charged to or against his own carelessness.To intrust; commission: with with.To command; enjoin; instruct; urge earnestly; exhort; adjure: with a person or thing as object.To give directions to; instruct authoritatively: as, to charge a jury.To call to account; challenge.To bear down upon; make an onset on; fall on; attack by rushing violently against.To put into the position of attack, as the spear in the rest.To value; think much of; make account of.To import; signify; be important.To take to heart; be concerned or troubled.To place the price of a thing to one's debit; ask payment; make a demand: as, I will not charge for this.To make an onset; rush to an attack.To lie down in obedience to a command: said of dogs: commonly used in the imperative.n. A load; a weight; a burden: used either literally or figuratively.n. The quantity of anything which an apparatus, as a gun, an electric battery, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or what it actually contains as a load.n. Hence— The case or tube used to contain the charge of a gun; a cartridge-case.n. In England, a quantity of lead of somewhat uncertain amount, but supposed to be 36 pigs, each pig containing 6 stone of 12 pounds each.n. A unit of weight used in Brabant up to 1820, being 400 Brabant pounds, equal to 414 pounds avoirdupois.n. A corn-measure used in southern France.n. A pecuniary burden, encumbrance, tax, or lien; cost; expense.n. That which constitutes debt in commercial transactions; the sum payable as the price of anything bought or any service rendered; an entry; the debit side of an account.n. A duty enjoined upon or intrusted to one; care; custody; oversight.n. 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.n. Heed; attention.n. A matter of importance, or for consideration; importance; value.n. An order; an injunction; a mandate; a command.n. An address 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 address delivered for the purpose of giving special instructions or advice.n. An address 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.n. In Scots law: The command of the sovereign's letters to perform some act, as to enter an heir. The messenger's copy of service requiring the person to obey the order of the letters, or generally to implement the decree of a court: as, a charge on letters of horning, or a charge against a superior.n. What is alleged or brought forward by way of accusation; imputation; accusation.n. Milit., an impetuous attack upon the enemy, made with the view of fighting him at close quarters and routing him by the onset.n. An order or a signal to make such an attack: as, the trumpeters sounded the charge.n. The position of a weapon held in readiness for attack or encounter.n. In heraldry, a bearing, or any figure borne or represented on an escutcheon, whether on the field or on an ordinary.n. Of dogs: The act of lying downn. The word of command given to a dog to lie down.n. In farriery, a preparation of the consistence of a thick decoction, or between an ointment and a plaster, used as a remedy for sprains and inflammations.Heavy; weighty.To paint too heavily; to over-express.n. In ordnance, the powder contained in a bag or case in quantity suitable for loading a gun, or the powder filling the interior of a projectile.n. Short for chargé d'affaires.