------+---------------+---------------+-------+------- | Proof. | Service. | | +-------+-------+-------+-------+ Salut-| Rico- Kinds.| Brass.| Iron. | Brass.| Iron. | ing. | chet. ------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+------- Prs. |lb. oz.|lb. oz.|lb. oz.|lb. oz.|lb. oz.|lb. oz. ------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+------- 24 |10 0 | 5 0 | 5 0 | 0 0 | 4 0 | 1 12 ------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+------- 12 | 6 0 | 0 0 | 3 0 | 0 0 | 2 8 | 1 4 ------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+------- 6 | 3 0 | 0 0 | 1 8 | 0 0 | 1 4 | 0 12 ------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+------- 3 | 1 8 | 1 12 | 0 12 | 0 0 | 0 14 | 0 8 ------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+------- As pieces of artillery are of various denominations, and consequently made use of on several occasions, their charges must of course have many variations. CHARGE, is also the attack of cavalry; and _charge bayonet_ is a word of command given to infantry, to force the enemy whom they are to charge at the point of the bayonet. _To sound a charge_, is the sound of the trumpet as a signal for cavalry to begin the attack. CHARGE, in military law, is the specification of any crime, or offence for which a non-commissioned officer or soldier is tried before a court martial. In all charges of this nature, the time and place, when and where the crime, or offence was committed, must be set forth with accuracy and precision. CHARGED _Cylinder_, in gunnery, implies that part of the chace of a gun, which contains the powder and ball. CHARGER, any horse belonging to an officer on which he rides in action. CHARGERS are also either bandoliers, or little flasks that contain powder for charge or priming. CHARIOT, a car, in which men of arms were anciently placed. These were armed with scythes, hooks, &c. The person who drove the chariot was called the _charioteer_. CHARPENTIER, _Fr._ a carpenter. CHART, or _sea_-CHART, is a hydrographical map, or a projection of some part of the earth’s superficies in plano, for the use of navigators and geographers. _Plane_-CHART, is a representation of some part of the earth’s superficies of the terraqueous globe, in which the meridians are supposed parallel to each other, the parallels of latitude at equal distances, and consequently the degrees of latitude and longitude every where equal to each other. CHART _of reduction_, is that where the meridians are represented by right lines, inclining towards each other; thence it appears by construction, that these charts must correct the errors of the plane ones. But since these parallels should cut the meridians at right angles, and do not, they are defective, inasmuch as they exhibit the parallels inclined to the meridians.