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The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance.

The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.

A term used to denote a duty or charge laid upon goods, at a certain rate per cent upon their value, as stated in their invoice, - - in opposition to a specific sum upon a given quantity or number; as, an ad valorem duty of twenty per cent.

To charge, bind, or command, solemnly, as if under oath, or under the penalty of a curse; to appeal to in the most solemn or impressive manner; to entreat earnestly. Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho. Josh. vi. 26. The high priest…

dhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper.

To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air. His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from aërated natural fountains. Carlyle.

A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes.

her proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic s…

A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air is powerfully compressed into a reservoir attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger.

A hole to admit or discharge air; specifically, a spot in the ice not frozen over.

A tube through which is water is discharged; an efflux tube; as, the ajutage of a fountain.

a party of what he undertakes to prove, -- usually applied to each separate averment; the charge or matter undertaken to be proved.

er emitted by radium and other radioactive substances, and shown to consist of positively charged particles (perhaps particles of helium) having enormous velocities but small masses. They are slightly deflected by a strong magnetic or electric field.

Of, from, in, or pertaining to, the belly or the intestines; as, alvine discharges; alvine concretions.

Ambergris. [Obs.] You that smell of amber at my charge. Beau. & Fl.

re for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition: By that sin fell the angels. Shak. The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres. Burke.

Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc.

The quality or state of being amenable; liability to answer charges; answerableness.

Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge.

A little circle borne as a charge.