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. Never, in any other war afore, gave the Romans a hotter charge upon the enemies. Holland. The charge of the light brigade. Tennyson.
14. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge.
15. (Far.)
Defn: A soft of plaster or ointment.
16. (Her.)
Defn: A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8.
17. Etym: [Cf. Charre.]
Defn: Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; — called also charre.