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See also: primary meaning, also seen in the word " charger," a large dish, come the uses of the word for the powder and shot to load a fire-arm, the accumulation of See also: electricity in a battery, the necessary quantity of See also: dynamite or other explosive in See also: blasting, and a See also: device See also: borne on an escutcheon in See also: heraldry
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" See also: Charge " can thus mean a See also: burden, and so a care or duty laid upon one, as in " to be in charge " of another
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With a transference to that which See also: lays such a duty on another, " charge " is used of the instructions given by a See also: judge to a See also: jury, or by a See also: bishop to the See also: clergy of his diocese
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In the See also: special sense of a pecuniary burden the word is used of the price of goods, of an encumbrance on See also: property, and of the expenses of See also: running a business
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Further uses of the word are of the violent, rushing attack of cavalry, or of a bull or See also: elephant, or See also: football player; hence " charger " is a See also: horse ridden in a charge, or more loosely a horse ridden by an officer, whether of See also: infantry or cavalry
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