[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

charge \charge\ chaumrj, v. t. imp.  p. p. charged
   chaumrjd; p. pr.  vb. n. charging. of. chargier, f.
   charger, fr. ll. carricare, fr. l. carrus wagon. cf. cargo,
   caricature, cark, and see car.
   1. to lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load;
      to fill.
      1913 webster

            a carte that charged was with hay.    --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            the charging of children's memories with rules.
                                                  --locke.
      1913 webster

   2. 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.
      1913 webster

            moses . . . charged you to love the lord your god.
                                                  --josh. xxii.
                                                  5.
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            cromwell, i charge thee, fling away ambition.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. to lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for.
      1913 webster

            when land shall be charged by any lien. --kent.
      1913 webster

   4. to fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a
      barrel for apples.
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   5. 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.
      1913 webster

   6. to impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge.
      1913 webster

            no more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime
            on native sloth and negligence of time. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   7. 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.
      1913 webster

            if he did that wrong you charge him with.
                                                  --tennyson.
      1913 webster

   8. 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.
      1913 webster

            their battering cannon charged to the mouths.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   9. to ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an
      architectural member with a molding.
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   10. her. to assume as a bearing; as, he charges three roses
       or; to add to or represent on; as, he charges his shield
       with three roses or.
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   11. to call to account; to challenge. obs.
       1913 webster

             to charge me to an answer.           --shak.
       1913 webster

   12. to bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack.
       1913 webster

             charged our main battle's front.     --shak.

   syn: to intrust; command; exhort; instruct; accuse; impeach;
        arraign. see accuse.
        1913 webster
see also:
charged charging cargo caricature cark car 
accuse 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

charge \charge\, v. i.
   1. to make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed
      bayonets.
      1913 webster

            like your heroes of antiquity, he charges in iron.
                                                  --glanvill.
      1913 webster

            "charge for the guns" he said.       --tennyson.
      1913 webster

   2. to demand a price; as, to charge high for goods.
      1913 webster

   3. to debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases.
      1913 webster

   4. to squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by
      a sportsman to a dog.
      1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

charge \charge\, n. f. charge, fr. charger to load. see
   charge, v. t., and cf. cargo, caricature.
   1. a load or burder laid upon a person or thing.
      1913 webster

   2. a person or thing commited or intrusted to the care,
      custody, or management of another; a trust.
      1913 webster

   note: the people of a parish or church are called the charge
         of the clergyman who is set over them.
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   3. custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office;
      responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty.
      1913 webster

            'tis a great charge to come under one body's hand.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. heed; care; anxiety; trouble. obs. --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   5. harm. obs. --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   6. an order; a mandate or command; an injunction.
      1913 webster

            the king gave cherge concerning absalom. --2. sam.
                                                  xviii. 5.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   8. an accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation;
      indictment; specification of something alleged.
      1913 webster

            the charge of confounding very different classes of
            phenomena.                            --whewell.
      1913 webster

   9. whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents,
      taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in
      the plural.
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   10. the price demanded for a thing or service.
       1913 webster

   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.
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   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
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   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.
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             never, in any other war afore, gave the romans a
             hotter charge upon the enemies.      --holland.
       1913 webster

             the charge of the light brigade.     --tennyson.
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   14. a position of a weapon fitted for attack; as, to bring
       a weapon to the charge.
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   15. far. a sort of plaster or ointment.
       1913 webster

   16. her. a bearing. see bearing, n., 8.
       1913 webster

   17. cf. charre. thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig
       weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also charre.
       1913 webster

   18. weight; import; value.
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             many suchlike "as's" of great charge. --shak.
       1913 webster

   back charge. see under back, a.

   bursting charge.
       a mil. the charge which bursts a shell, etc.
       b mining a small quantity of fine powder to secure
           the ignition of a charge of coarse powder in
           blasting.

   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.

   syn: care; custody; trust; management; office; expense; cost;
        price; assault; attack; onset; injunction; command;
        order; mandate; instruction; accusation; indictment.
        1913 webster
see also:
charge cargo caricature bearing charre charre 
back charge back bursting charge charge and discharge charge sheet 
to sound the charge 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

charge
     n 1: criminal law a pleading describing some wrong or offense;
          "he was arrested on a charge of larceny" syn: complaint
     2: the price charged for some article or service; "the
        admission charge"
     3: an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence;
        "the newspaper published charges that jones was guilty of
        drunken driving" syn: accusation
     4: request for payment of a debt; "they submitted their charges
        at the end of each month" syn: billing
     5: a impetuous rush toward someone or something; "the
        wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary"; "the
        battle began with a cavalry charge"
     6: the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body either
        positive or negative and construed as an excess or
        deficiency of electrons; "the battery needed a fresh
        charge" syn: electric charge
     7: financial liabilities such as a tax; "the charges against
        the estate"
     8: a person committed to your care; "the teacher led her
        charges across the street"
     9: attention and management implying responsibility for safety;
        "he is in the care of a bodyguard" syn: care, tutelage,
         guardianship
     10: a special assignment that is given to a person or group; "a
         confidential mission to london"; "his charge was deliver
         a message" syn: mission, commission
     11: a formal statement of a command or injunction to do
         something; "the judge's charge to the jury" syn: commission,
          direction
     12: a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time; "this
         cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains" syn: burster,
          bursting charge, explosive charge
     13: the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a
         great bang out of it"; "what a boot"; "he got a quick
         rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks" syn:
          bang, boot, rush, flush, thrill, kick
     14: psychoanalysis the libidinal energy invested in some idea
         or person or object; "freud thought of cathexis as a
         psychic analog of an electrical charge" syn: cathexis
     15: heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a
         shield syn: bearing, heraldic bearing, armorial
         bearing
     v 1: to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle; "he
          saw jess charging at him with a pitchfork" syn: bear
          down
     2: blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior
        against; "he charged me director with indifference" syn:
        accuse
     3: demand payment; "will i get charged for this service?"; "we
        were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed
        only 3 nights" syn: bill
     4: move quickly and violently; "the car tore down the street";
        "he came charging into my office" syn: tear, shoot, shoot
        down, buck
     5: assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to; "he was
        appointed deputy manager"; "she was charged with
        supervising the creation of a concordance" syn: appoint
     6: file a formal charge against; "the suspect was charged with
        murdering his wife" syn: lodge, file
     7: make an accusatory claim; "the defense attorney charged that
        the jurors were biased"
     8: fill or load to capacity; "charge the wagon with hay" ant:
        discharge
     9: enter a certain amount as a charge; "he charged me $15"
     10: cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "after
         the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was
         committed to prison" syn: commit, institutionalize,
         institutionalise, send
     11: give over to another for care or safekeeping; "consign your
         baggage" syn: consign
     12: pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone
         payment by recording a purchase as a debt; "will you pay
         cash or charge the purchase?" ant: pay cash
     13: lie down on command, of hunting dogs
     14: cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "the speaker
         charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks" syn:
          agitate, rouse, turn on, commove, excite, charge
         up ant: calm
     15: place a heraldic bearing on; "charge all weapons, shields,
         and banners"
     16: provide with munition; "he loaded his gun carefully" syn: load
     17: direct into a position for use; "point a gun"; "he charged
         his weapon at me" syn: level, point
     18: impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to; "he charged
         her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend"
         syn: saddle, burden
     19: instruct a jury about the law, its application, and the
         weighing of evidence
     20: instruct or command with authority; "the teacher charged the
         children to memorize the poem"
     21: attribute responsibility to; "we blamed the accident on
         her"; "the tragedy was charged to her inexperience" syn:
          blame
     22: set or ask for a certain price; "how much do you charge for
         lunch?"; "this fellow charges $100 for a massage"
     23: cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on; "charge
         a conductor"
     24: energize a battery by passing a current through it in the
         direction opposite to discharge; "i need to charge my car
         battery"
     25: saturate; "the room was charged with tension and anxiety"
see also:
complaint accusation billing electric charge care tutelage 
guardianship mission commission direction burster 
bursting charge explosive charge bang boot rush 
flush thrill kick cathexis bearing 
heraldic bearing armorial bearing bear down accuse bill 
tear shoot shoot down buck appoint 
lodge file discharge commit institutionalize 
institutionalise send consign pay cash agitate 
rouse turn on commove excite charge up 
calm load level point saddle 
burden blame 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

878 moby thesaurus words for "charge":
   accountability, accounting for, accounts payable,
   accounts receivable, accredit, accusal, accusation, accuse,
   accusing, achievement, action, activate, adjure, administration,
   admission, admission fee, admonish, advowson, afflict, agency,
   agentship, aggravated assault, aggression, alerion, allegation,
   allege, allegement, allegiance, amount, amount due, amperage,
   amphibious attack, amplify, anchorage, animal charge, annulet,
   answerability, anticathexis, application, argent, armed assault,
   armipotence, armorial bearings, armory, arms, arraign, arraignment,
   arrogation, article, ascription, ask, assail, assailing,
   assailment, assault, assert, assess, assessment, assign,
   assignation, assigned task, assignment, attachment, attack,
   attribute, attribution, auspices, authority, authorization,
   authorize, azure, bad debts, bail, bale, bandeau, bang,
   banzai attack, bar, bar sinister, baton, bear hard upon, bearings,
   beef, behest, bellyful, bend, bend sinister, benefice, bid,
   bidding, bill, bill of particulars, billet, bills, black power,
   blame, blast, blazon, blazonry, blitz, blitzkrieg, boil, bolt,
   book, boot, bordure, borrowing, bossing, bounden duty,
   breakthrough, brevet, brim, bring accusation, bring charges,
   bring to book, bringing of charges, bringing to book, broad arrow,
   brokerage, brute force, budget, budget items, bumper, burden,
   burden of expenditure, burden with, burdening, burthen, business,
   busywork, buy on credit, cadency mark, call of duty, call on,
   call the signals, call upon, canton, capacity, care, care of souls,
   carfare, cargo, carload, carrying charge, cartload,
   cathectic energy, cathexis, caution, cellarage, censure, chaplet,
   chare, charge for, charges, charging, charisma, charter, chase,
   chevron, chief, chits, chock, choke, chore, cite, claim, client,
   clog, clout, coat of arms, cock, cockatrice, cogence, cogency,
   command, commission, commissioning, commit, commitment, committal,
   complain, complaint, complement, compulsion, concern, conduct,
   congest, connection with, consign, consignment, contaminate,
   control, coronet, cost, cost of living, cost-of-living allowance,
   cost-of-living index, costs, count, counterattack, countercathexis,
   counteroffensive, coup de main, cover charge, cram, credit,
   crescent, crest, criminate, crippling attack, cross, cross moline,
   crowd, crown, crush, cumber, cumbrance, curacy, cure,
   custodianship, custody, damage, dash, dash at, dead set at,
   deadweight, debit, debt, declare, decree, dedication, deference,
   delation, delegate, delegated authority, delegation, demand,
   denounce, denouncement, denunciate, denunciation, dependent,
   deputation, depute, deputize, derivation from, descent on,
   desire concentration, detach, detail, detonate, device, devoir,
   devolute, devolution, devolve, devolve upon, devolvement, devotion,
   dictate, difference, differencing, difficulty, dint, direct,
   direct costs, direction, disadvantage, disbursals, discharge,
   distributed costs, diversion, diversionary attack, dockage, drag,
   drive, drop, due, dues, duress, duties and responsibilities, duty,
   eagle, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, eject, electric charge,
   electrify, embarrassment, embassy, empower, empowerment, encourage,
   encumber, encumbrance, energize, energy, energy charge, enjoin,
   entrance fee, entrust, entrusting, entrustment, ermine, ermines,
   erminites, erminois, errand, escutcheon, ethics, etiology, exact,
   exaction, exactment, executorship, exequatur, exercise, exhaust,
   exhort, exhortation, expect, expenditure, expense, expense account,
   expenses, expostulate, eye, factorship, falcon, fare, fasten on,
   fasten upon, fealty, fee, fell, fess, fess point, field, figure,
   file, fill, fill to overflowing, fill up, financial commitment,
   finger, fire, fire off, fish to fry, flanch, flank attack,
   fleur-de-lis, fling, floating debt, flower power, flush, fly at,
   foray, force, force majeure, forcefulness, freight, freight with,
   fret, frontal attack, fuel, full blast, full force, full house,
   full measure, full power, funded debt, fur, fusil, galvanize,
   garland, gas attack, general expenses, generate, get up steam,
   give an order, give in charge, give the word, glebe, go on tick,
   governance, government, griffin, guardianship, guarding, guidance,
   gules, gun, gun for, gyron, hamper, handicap, handling, hands,
   hang something on, hatchment, head-on attack, heap, helmet,
   heraldic device, hire, hit, hold, homage, homework, honor,
   honor point, hypercathexis, imbue, impalement, impaling, impeach,
   impeachment, impediment, impedimenta, imperative, implication,
   imply, impose, impose on, impose upon, imposition, impregnate,
   impugn, imputation, impute, incite, inconvenience, incriminate,
   incubus, inculpate, incumbency, indebtedness, indebtment, indict,
   indictment, indirect costs, induce, inescutcheon, infect,
   infiltration, inflict on, inflict upon, influence, inform against,
   inform on, information, injunction, innuendo, insinuate,
   insinuation, instruct, instruction, intendance, interpenetrate,
   invoice, irradiate, issue a command, issue a writ, jam, jam up,
   jam-pack, jet propulsion, job, job of work, jollies, jump off,
   jurisdiction, keep, keeping, kick, label, labor, labor costs, lade,
   lading, lash, lawsuit, lay, lay charges, lay on, laying of charges,
   legation, let fly, let off, levy, liabilities, liability, license,
   license fee, lieutenancy, lift, lightning attack, lightning war,
   line of duty, lion, liquid oxygen, live wire, living, load,
   loading, lodge a complaint, lodge a plaint, loop in, loyalty,
   lozenge, lumber, main force, main strength, make dutiable,
   make-work, mana, management, mandate, mantling, marshaling,
   martlet, mascle, mass attack, material costs, matters in hand,
   maturity, megadeath, metal, might, might and main, mightiness,
   millstone, ministry, mission, motto, mouthful, move, moxie,
   mugging, mullet, muscle power, must, name, national debt, need,
   nombril point, obligation, octofoil, odd job, offense, offensive,
   office, onset, onslaught, onus, operating costs, operating expense,
   oppress, oppression, or, ordain, order, order about, ordinary,
   orle, ought, outstanding debt, overburden, overcharge, overfill,
   overhead, overkill, overload, oversight, overtax, overtaxing,
   overweight, overweighting, pack, pad, palaetiology, pale, paly,
   panzer warfare, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship, patronage,
   payload, pean, pelt, penalty, penetrate, pensionary, pensioner,
   pepper, percolate, permeate, persuade, pervade, pheon, pick off,
   piece of work, pile, pilotage, pin on, pistol, pizzazz, place,
   placement, plaint, pledge, plenipotentiary power, plug, plug in,
   poison, poop, portage, post, pot, potence, potency, potentiality,
   potshoot, potshot, power, power of attorney, power pack,
   power structure, power struggle, power to act, powerfulness,
   preach, precept, prefer charges, prelacy, prepotency, prescript,
   prescription, presentment, press charges, press hard upon,
   pressure, preventive custody, price, price tag, prime, prime cost,
   pro rata, proclaim, procuration, productiveness, productivity,
   project, prompt, promulgate, pronounce, propellant,
   propulsion charge, prorate, prosecution, protection,
   protective custody, protectorship, protege, proxy, public charge,
   public debt, puissance, pull, punch, purpure, purview, push, put,
   put down, put on, put on report, put upon, quarter, quartering,
   quiver, race, radiumize, raid, ram in, rate, reaction propulsion,
   receive credit, rectory, refer, reference to, regency, regentship,
   remonstrate, replacement cost, report, reprehend, reproach,
   request, require, respect, responsibility, rest hard upon, riddle,
   right, rocket propulsion, rose, rule, run against, run at, running,
   rush, rush at, rush of emotion, sable, saddle, saddle with,
   saddling, safe hands, safekeeping, sally, saltire, salvage,
   satiate, saturate, say the word, score, scot, scot and lot,
   scutcheon, self-imposed duty, send out, sensation, service, set,
   shield, shipload, shiver, shock, shock tactics, shoot, shoot at,
   shoot down, short, short-circuit, shot, shudder, sinew, snipe,
   snootful, solicit, sortie, spread eagle, steam, steam up,
   step down, step up, stewardship, stick for, stiffen, stint,
   storage, storm, strength, strike, strong arm, stuff, subject to,
   subordinary, suffuse, suit, supercharge, superincumbency,
   superintendence, superintendency, superiority, superpower,
   supervision, surcharge, surfeit, surge of emotion, surveillance,
   swindle sheet, switch off, switch on, tab, take a potshot,
   take credit, take to task, tariff, task, taunt with, tax, taxing,
   teaching, tear, tell, tenne, things to do, thrill, thrust, tilt at,
   tincture, tingle, tingling, tithe, titillation, toll, top off,
   torpedo, torse, towage, trailerload, trainload, transfer,
   transfuse, tremor, tremor of excitement, tressure, trouble,
   truckload, true bill, trust, trusteeship, turn off, turn on,
   tutelage, twit, uncollectibles, unfulfilled pledge, unicorn,
   unit cost, unit quantity, unprovoked assault, unspoken accusation,
   urge, vair, validity, vanload, vehemence, veiled accusation, vert,
   vicarage, vicarious authority, vigor, vim, virility, virtue,
   virulence, vitality, wad, ward, wardenship, wardship, warhead,
   warm up, warn, warrant, watch and ward, wattage, weigh,
   weigh heavy on, weigh on, weigh upon, weight, weight down with,
   wharfage, white elephant, wind, wind up, wing, word, work, wreath,
   yale, yoke with

[6] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

charge, contracts. an obligation entered into by the owner of an estate 
which makes the estate responsible for its performance. vide 2 ball  
beatty, 223; 8 com. dig. 306, appendix, h.t. any obligation binding upon 
him who enters into it, which may be removed or taken away by a discharge. 
t. de la ley, h.t. 
     2. that particular kind of commission which one undertakes to perform 
for another, in keeping the custody of his goods, is called a charge. 

[7] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

charges. the term charges signifies the expenses which have been incurred in 
relation either to a transaction or to a suit; as the charges incurred for 
his benefit must be paid by a hirer; the defendant must pay the charges of a 
suit. the term charges, in relation to actions, includes something more than 
the costs, technically called. 

[8] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

charge. wills, devises. an obligation which a testator imposes on his 
devisee; as, if the testator give peter, blackacre, and direct that he shall 
pay to john during his life an annuity of one hundred dollars, which shall 
be a charge" on said land; or if a legacy be and directed to be paid out of 
the real property. 1 rop. leg. 446. vide 4 vin. ab. 449; 1 supp. to ves. jr. 
309; 2 id. 31; 1 vern. 45, 411; 1 swanst. 28; 4 east, r. 501; 4 ves. jr. 
815; domat, loix civ. liv. 3, t. 1, s. 8, n. 

[9] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

charge, practice. the opinion expressed by the court to the jury, on the law 
arising out of a case before them. 
     2. it should contain a clear and explicit exposition of the law, when 
the points of the law in dispute arise out of the facts proved on the trial 
of the cause; 10 pet. 657; but the court ought at no time to undertake to 
decide the facts, for these are to be decided by the jury. 4 rawle's r. 195; 
2 penna. r. 27; 4 rawle's r. 356 id. 100; 2 serg.  rawle, 464; 1 serg.  
rawle, 515; 8 serg.  rawle, 150. see 3 cranch, 298; 6 pet. 622 1 gall. r. 
53; 5 cranch, 187; 2 pet. 625; 9 pet. 541. 

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