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Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business; -- called also fixed, establishment, or (in a manufacturing business) a…

To charge or accuse in return.

Heavy with sleep.

To charge (a bearing) upon another bearing; as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess.

To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon. Four charged two, and two surcharged one. Spenser. Your head reclined, as hiding grief from view, Droops like a rose surcharged with morning dew. Dryden.

The act of surcharging; also, surcharge, surplus. [Obs.] Daniel.

One who surcharges.

To free from a charge or load; to unload. Wyclif.

To charge below or under; to charge less than is usual or suitable fro; as, to undercharge goods or services.

A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.

Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.

Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side.

ne who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts. Accountatn general, the head or superintending accountant in certain public offices. Also, formerly, an officer in the English court of chancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited th…

levators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc.

Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or fault; blamable; -- with of.

That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge. [They] set up over his head his accusation. Matt. xxvii. 37.

To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense; (Law)

Charged with offense; as, an accused person.

One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.

To discharge, as a claim or debt; to clear off; to pay off; to requite. A responsibility that can never be absolutely acquitted. I. Taylor.