To levy charges on (a person). Only in the phrase spend me and defend me. Obsolete.

transitive. To charge with a debt; to enter something to the debit of (a person).

U.S. (esp. New England) colloquial. To price (a thing at so much); to charge (a person so much for a thing).

to charge (a thing sold or offered for sale). To lay the liability of payment for (a thing) on a person; to put as a charge to or against (his…