[SUB- 5 b, c.]
† 1. A second dish or course. Also fig. Sc. Obs.
c. 1480. Henryson, Mor. Fab., II. (Town & C. Mouse) xviii. Till eik thair cheir ane subcharge furth scho brocht, Ane plait of grottis [etc.] Ibid., xxvii. The subcharge of thy seruice is bot sair.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, XIII. ix. 118. All ar expert, eftir new mariage, On the first nycht quhat suld be the subcharge.
2. Subordinate charge.
1900. R. Whiteing, in Century Mag., Feb., 503/2. I have seen M. Clémenceau as storm-fiend-in-chief, and M. Clovis Hugues in subcharge of the Cave of the Winds.
