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fpeari .—What any thing can bear.—Take of aqua-fortis 
two ounces, of quickfilver two drachms, for that charge 
the aqua-fortis will bear, the diffolution will not bear a 
flint as big as a nutmeg. Bacon. —The quantity of pow¬ 
der and ball put into a gun or cannon; for the adjufi- 
ment whereof, fee the articles Gunnery, and Shoot¬ 
ing. — Among farriers, charge is a preparation, or a 
fort of ointment of the confiltence of a thick decofrion, 
which is applied to the fhoulder-fplaits, inflammations, 
and fprains of horfes. A charge is of a middle nature, 
between an ointment and a plaiter, or between a plafter 
and a cataplafm.— In heraldry; the charge is that 
which is borne upon the colour, except it be a coat 
divided only by partition. Peacham. 
CHARGE, in electricity. See Electricity. 
CHARGE of Juftices in Seffions, See. See Chapiters. 
CHARGE and DISCHARGE, in law, are defined as 
follows: A charge is faid to be a thing done that bind- 
eth him that doeth it, or that which is his, to the per¬ 
formance thereof: and difeharge is the removal, or 
taking away, of that charge. Land may be charged di¬ 
vers ways ; as by grant of rent out of it, by ltatutes, 
judgments, conditions, warrants, &c. Lands in fee- 
flmple may be charged in fee: and where a man may 
difpofe of the land itfelf, he may charge it by a rent, or 
ftatute, one way or other. Lit. 648. If one charge land 
in tail, and land in fee-fimple, and die, the land in fee 
only ihall be chargeable. Bro. Cha. 9. Lands intailed 
may be charged in fee, if the eftate-tail be cut off by re¬ 
covery : if tenant in tail charge the land, and after levy 
a fine, or fuffer a recovery of the lands, to his own ufe, 
this confirms the charge, and it fiiall continue. 1 Rep. 6 1. 
A tenant for life charges the land, and then makes a feoff¬ 
ment to a ftranger, or doth walte, &c. whereby it is for¬ 
feited, he in reveriion fhall hold it charged during his 
(.the tenant’s) life : and if one have a leafe for life, or 
years, of land, and grant a rent out of it; if after he fur- 
renders his ellate, yet the charge ihall continue fo long 
as the eflate had endured, in cafe it had not been fur- 
rendered. 1 Rep. 67, 145. Dyer 10. 
If one jointenant charge land, and after releafe to his 
companion and die, the furvivor ftiail hold it charged ; 
but, if it had come to him by furvivorfhip, it would be 
othenvife. 6 Rep. 76. 1 Shep. Abr. 325. He that hath a 
remainder or reverfion of land may charge it, becaufe of 
the pofhbility that the land will come into polfeflion, and 
then the pofleflion fhall be charged. But where one leales 
land for life, and grants the reverfioil or remainder over 
to A. B. who charges the land, and dies, and the tenant 
for life is heir to the fee, in this cale he fhall hold it dif- 
charged, for he had the polfeflion by purchafe, though 
he had the fee by del’cent. Bro. 11, 16. 1 Rep. 62, If a 
rent be ifl'uing out of a lioufe, &c. and it falls down, the 
charge fhall remain upon the foil. 9 Ed. 4, 20. But 
when the eftate is gone upon which the charge was 
grounded, there, generally, the charge is determined^ 
Co. Lit. 349. And in all cafes where any executory thing 
is created by deed, there, by content of all the parties, it 
may be by deed defeated and difeharged. 10 Rep. 49. 
CHAR'GEABLE, adj. Expenfive; coltly.—Divers bul¬ 
warks were demolifhed upon the fea-coafts, in peace 
chargeable, and little lerviceable in war. Hayward. —Im¬ 
putable, as a debt or crime: with on. —Nothing can be 
a reafonable ground of delpifing a man, but fome fault 
or other chargeable upon him. South. —Subjeft to charge 
or accufation ; accufable : followed by with. —Your pa¬ 
pers would be chargeable with lomething worfe than in¬ 
delicacy ; they would be immoral. Speftator. 
CHAR/GEABLENESS, f. Expence; coft; coftlinefs. 
—That which molt deters me from fuch trials, is not 
their chargeablenefs, but their unfatisfactorinefs, though 
they they Ihould lucceeci. Boyle. 
CHAK/GEABLY, adaj. Expenfively ; at great colt.— 
He procured it not with his money, but by his wilidom ; 
not chargeably bought by him, but liberally given by 
others by his means. Afcham. 
CHAR'GEFUL, adj. Expenfive; coltly. Not in ufe: 
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How much your chain weighs to the utmolt carat, 
The finenefs of the gold, the chargeful fafhion. Shakef 
CHAR'GER,/. A large difli: 
This golden charger, fnatch’d from burning Troy, 
Anchifes did in l'acrifice employ. Dryden . 
CHAR'GEY, a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper Saone, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of Champlitte : one league north of Gray. 
CHARIENTIS'MUS,/. Gr.] Graceful- 
nefs ; a good grace in ipeaking. Alio a figure in rhetoric, 
in which a taunting expreflion is l'oftened with a jelt. 
CHARIL'LOS (Los), a town of South America, in 
Peru, and jurildiftion of Lima. 
CFIA'RILY, Warily; frugally.—What paper do 
you take up fo charily ? Shakefpeare. 
CHA'RINESS,/. Caution ; nicety ; fcrupuloufnefs.—- 
I will content to aft any villany againft him, that may 
not fully the charinefs of our honefty. Shakefpeare. 
CHA'RING, a fmall town in Kent, diftant from Lon¬ 
don fifty miles, Canterbury fifteen, Faverfham ten, and 
Maidltone, fifteen. It lies between Lenham anti Weltweli, 
on the louth of the road from Maidflone to Canterbury, 
and Hands on a fpring-head of the river Len, and has the 
ruins of a caftellated palace of the archbifhops, given them 
by fome of the firft Saxon kings. The fairs are April 29 
and October 29. Mr. Ludwell left by wall to this pariflx 
2550I. liock for a free fchool, and other charitable ules ; 
and to which purpofes the money hath been advantage - 
oully applied. 
CHA'RING-CROSS (near Weftminlter), a crofs erec¬ 
ted by king Edward I. in memory of queen Eleanor, who 
lucked the poifon out of his wounds, made by a Moor’s 
envenomed l’word in the holy war. 
CHA'RIOT,/. \_car-rhod, Welfli, a wheeled car; char 
riot, French; carretta, Ital.] A wheel-carriage of plea- 
lure, or Hate; a vehicle for men rather than wares: 
Thy grand captain Anthony 
Shall fet thee on triumphant chariots, and 
Put garlands on thy head. Shakefpeare, 
A car in which men of arms were anciently placed ; 
He fkims the liquid plains 
High on his chariot, and with loofen’d reins 
Majellic moves along. Dryden- 
A lighter kind of modern coach, with only front feats. 
Do CHA'RIOT, n>. a. To convey in a chariot. This- 
word is now rarely ufed: 
An angel all in flames afeended. 
As in a fiery column charioting 
His godlike prefence. Milton. 
The chariots of the ancients were chiefly ufed in war. 
By the Greek and Roman hiftorians, there are deferibed 
the fix following, viz. Benna, Petoritum, Currus or Car- 
rus, Covinus, Efiedum, and Rheda. The benna feems to 
have been a chariot defigned rather tor travelling than 
war : it contained two perlons, who were called com- 
bennones, from their fitting together in the fame machine. 
The petoritum feems to have been a larger kind of 
chariot, and is thought to have derived its name from 
the Britifh word pedwar, fignifying four; this kind of 
chariot having four wheels. The carrus, or currus, was 
the common cart or waggon : this was ufed by the an¬ 
cient Britons, in time of peace, for the purpofes of agri¬ 
culture and merchandize,-and, in time of war, for carry¬ 
ing their baggage, and wives and children, who com¬ 
monly 
