'To sound the charge' definitions:

Definition of 'To sound the charge'

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  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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 [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 14. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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]