CHARGE, a load (Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon) ; cf. "cargo," "charger," a large dish. The word is used also for the powder and shot to load a firearm, the accumulation of electricity in a battery, the necessary quantity of dynamite or other explosive in blasting, and a device borne on an escutcheon in heraldry. "Charge" can mean a burden, and so a care or duty laid upon one, as in the instructions given by a judge to a jury, or by a bishop to the clergy of his diocese. In the sense of a pecuniary burden the word is applied to the price of goods, to an encumbrance on property and the expense of running a busi ness. Further uses of the word are of an attack by cavalry, or by a bull or elephant, or football player; "charger," originally a horse ridden in a charge, now means a horse ridden by an officer, whether of infantry or cavalry.