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A large dish. [Obs.] Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger. Matt. xiv. 8.

One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.

One who surcharges.

A curvet; a leap. See Capriole. The cabrioles which his charger exhibited. Sir W. Scott.

A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger. [Poetic.] Pope.

lass handle. It is employed for discharging a Leyden jar or an electrical battery. See Discharger.

. She, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger. Matt. xiv. 8. Take her in; instruct her what she has to do. Shak.

d interrupted by a thin nonconductor over which lightning jumps. Called also lightning discharger. -- Lightning bug (Zoöl.), a luminous beetle. See Firefly. -- Lightning conductor, a lightning rod. -- Lightning glance, a quick, penetrating glance of a brilliant eye. -- Lightning rod, a metallic rod set up on a buil…

A small saddle horse for ladies. Spenser. Call the host and bid him bring Charger and palfrey. Tennyson.

elain vase; a gold vase; a Grecian vase. See Illust. of Portland vase, under Portland. No chargers then were wrought in burnished gold, Nor silver vases took the forming mold. Pope.

a cavalry soldier; especially, a strong, powerful, spirited horse for military service; a charger. -- War paint, paint put on the face and other parts of the body by savages, as a token of going to war. "Wash the war paint from your faces." Longfellow. -- War song, a song of or pertaining to war; especially, among th…