carriage 
Tin- Streets he appointed and Bet forth very commodious 
anil handsome, both for , ;!,/,, and also tgcilut the 
winds. Hir T. Muff, Utopia (tr. hy Knhinwm), ii. 2. 
Specifically 2. The carrying of goods, per- 
sons, etc. ; the business of transportation. 
I then atiirm that, if ill time of war our business had tile 
good fortune to increase, and at the same time a large, 
nay the largest proportion of carriage had Iteen engrossed 
hy neutral nations, it ought not in itself to have heell con- 
sidered as a circumstance of distress. 
llurke, Late State of Nation. 
3f. That which is carried; goods transported; 
load; burden; freight; baggage. 
After those days we took up our carriages, and went up 
to Jerusalem. Acts xxi. 1ft. 
David left his nirriiigr in the hand of the keeper of the 
carriage, 1 Sain. xvii. 22. 
The marchants of Constantinople aduised me . ! . to 
)>y uncouered rartes of mine ownu (such as the Russians 
carrie their skins in), and to put all our carriage*, which 
I would daylie take out, into them. 
llakluift'n yotjages, I. 94. 
The eoaehman rashly driving on, 
Till cuac.li and carriage hotli are (|ilitc o'erthrown. 
Mi'lilli-ti'ii it nd llii/Hi'f/. Spanisli Gypsy, ill. 1. 
4. In Scots laic, the service of a horse and cart. 
5. The price or expense of carrying. 
The carnage of letters will he very cheap. 
AilitiKitn, The Newspaper. 
6. That which is used for carrying or transport- 
ing, especially on or over a solid surface, (a) A 
wheeled vehicle for the conveyance of persons. 
A lamluu drove up, a magnificent yellow carriage. 
Thackcrny, Pendennis, xxxvi. 
(It) A wheeled stand or support : commonly in composi- 
tion : as, a gun-carri;/e, a black-carriage for mortars, etc. 
See ffun-carriaffe. 
Six 6-ln. I! Inn broadside guns, mounted on Vavasseur 
carriages. Set. Amer. Sttpp., p. 8695. 
(c) Any part of a machine which carries another part : as, 
the carriage of a mule-spinner, a shafting, a type-writer, 
etc. (rf) That part of the frame of the old hand printing- 
press which supported and carried the form of types on 
tlie hed(or cortin, as it was then called), in its movement to 
and from the platen or impressing surface. Hand-presses 
are now made without carriage-frames, and with ribs run- 
ning in grooved rails, (e) In carp., the timber-frame 
which supports the steps of a wooden stair. (/) The straps 
or hands hy which the sword was hung from the waist- 
belt in the sixteenth century. See hanger, 
//am. What call you the carriages? . . . 
Osr. The carriages, sir, are the hangers. 
Ham. The phrase would he more german to the matter, 
if we could carry cannon by onr sides. Shak. , Hamlet, v. 2. 
7t. The act of carrying or taking from an ene- 
my; conquest; acquisition. 
Solyman resolved to besiege Vienna, in good hope that 
by the carriage ... of that the other cities would . . . 
be yielded. Knolles, Hist. Turks. 
8f. Tax; imposition. 
By pryvey raveyns or by comune tributus or cariaget. 
Chaucer, Boethius, i. prose 4. 
9. The manner of carrying or managing one's 
person ; hence, behavior ; conduct ; deportment ; 
manners. 
A sad face, a reverend carriage, a slow tongue. 
Shak., T. N., iii. 4. 
This afternoon Mr. Waith was with me, and did tell me 
much concerning the Chest, which I am resolved to look 
into ; and I iwrceive he is sensible of Sir W. Batten's car- 
riage; and is pleased to see anything work against him. 
Pepya, Diary, I. 308. 
But, sir, your air is noble something so liberal in your 
carriage, with so penetrating an eye, and so bewitching a 
smile ! Sheridan, The Duenna, ii. 2. 
10f. The act or manner of carrying out busi- 
ness; management. 
The violent carriage of it 
Will clear, or end, the business. 
Shak., W. T., iii. 1. 
They observed in the sachem much state, great com- 
mand over his men, and marvellous wisdom in his answers 
and the carriage of the whole treaty. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 229. 
lit. Bearing; import; tenor; meaning. 
The Hebrew text hath no other carriage. 
Titne's Storehouse, p. 112. 
As, by the same cov'nant 
And carriage of the article design'd, 
His [moiety) fell to Hamlet. Shak,, Hamlet, i. 1. 
Well, now you know the carriage of the business, 
Yoxir constancy is all that is required. 
B. jonson, Volpone, iv. 2. 
12. In equity irractice, control or conduct. It 
implies the priority of right to go forward with a pro- 
ceeding in the prosecution of which others also are inter- 
ested. 
The party which is entrusted with the execution of the 
dcdimus is said to have the carnage of the commission, 
and if the first commission is lost by reason of the default 
or neglect of the party who had the carriage of it, the 
carriage of the second will be given to the adverse party. 
D. G. Lube. 
13. A drain; a furrow cut for the purpose of 
carrying off water. Grose. [Prov. Eng.] 14. 
A customary dry measure used for lime, con- 
sisting of 64 heaped bushels. Composite car- 
53 
833 
rlage, a railway-carriage made up of compartments of 
different classes, as tirst. second, and third : in Use in Kny- 
land and on the continent of Km ope. Sea-coast car- 
riage, a carriage for supporting heavy KIIII.S, used on tlie 
M-alioard. These carriages are iml ti-i.l I'm tnmvp,,] !a 
tion. State carriage, the carriage of a prince or sov- 
ereign, n.sed when he appears publicly in state. =8yn. 9. 
fj,-/,,,, hi ii'nt. Ili-nii 'in',,, ete. See tuluffiiir. 
carriageable (kar'aj-a-bl), a. [< earring'' + 
-able.] 1. Capable of being conveyed in a car- 
riage or carriages. 2. Passable by carriages. 
We drove on for some distance over an old Roman road, 
as carriageable as when it was built. 
l.i, "II. r'ircMde Travels, p. 232. 
carriage-bridge (kar'aj-brij), n. Milit., abridge 
made to be moved on wheels, for use in attack- 
ing fortifications. 
carriage-company (kar'aj-kmn"i>a-ni), >i. Peo- 
ple who keep their carriages; persons wealthy 
enough to pay visits, etc., in their own car- 
riages. 
There is no phrase more elegant and to my taste than 
that in which people arc described as "seeing a great deal 
of i-<i,-rifi!ii'-i->iiiiiiiiiii/. " Tliark'iiin, Vuromes, ix. 
carriagedt (kar'ajd), a. [< carriage, it. ,9, + 
-c<P.] Behaved; mannered. See carriage, 9. 
A fine lady, . . . very well carriaged and mighty discreet. 
Diary, June 14, 1004. 
carriage-free (kar'aj-fre), a. Free of charge 
for carriage. 
carriage-guard (kar'ai-giird), n. A plate on 
the bed of a carriage where the fore wheel rubs 
when the carriage is turned. 
carriage-lock (kar'aj-lok), n. A brake for a 
carriage. E. H. Knight. 
carriage-piece (kar'aj-pes), n. In carp., one 
of the slanting pieces on which the steps of a 
wooden staircase are laid. 
carriage-spring (kar ' aj - spring), . A spring 
fitted to the gearing or a carriage. The term is 
applied especially to flue springs used on light vehicles, 
as distinguished from wagon-springs and car-springs. 
When of metal they are usually classed as elliptical and 
C springs, the two kinds being combined and used in a 
great variety of ways. Wood is used for springs in the 
side-bar system of suspension and in the buckboard, and 
is sometimes combined in both cases with steel springs. 
See side-bar and buckboard. 
carriageway (kar'aj-wa), n. The part of a 
road, street, or bridge intended to be used by 
wheeled vehicles; a roadway. 
In 1845 the area of the carriage-way of the city was 
estimated at 418,000 square yards. Jtaijheie. 
carriboo, M. See caribou. 
carrick 1 (kar'ik), . [Origin obscure.] 1. 
The ball or block of wood used in the game 
of shinty. 2. The game of shinty. [Scotch.] 
carrick 2 (kar'ik), w. See carack. 
carrick-bend (kar'ik-bend), n. Naut., 
a particular kind of knot for joining 
two cables or hawsers. 
carrick-bitt (kar'ik-bit), n. Naut., one 
of the bitts which support the windlass. 
carried (kar 'id), p. a. 1. So ab- 
stracted as to lose the power of atten- 
tion to matters at hand. 2. In an im- 
paired state of mind ; not in full pos- 
session of one's mental powers, as an 
effect of fever. 
He [David Deans) was heard to mutter some- 
thing about national defections, right-hand ex- 
tremes, and left-hand fallings-off ; but, as May 
Hettly observed, his head was carried at the time. 
Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, xlix. Carrick- 
3. Elevated in mind ; transported with 
joy or some other strong emotion ; beside one's 
self. [Obsolete or Scotch in these uses.] 
They lose their own souls, whilst covetously carried. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 696. 
All are passionate, and furiously carried sometimes. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 328. 
carrier 1 (kar'i-er), n. [Early mod. E. also car- 
ri/er, carryar, carter, < ME. cari/are; < carry + 
-er 1 .] 1. One who or that which carries or con- 
veys. 
The air ... is ... a carrier of sounds. 
Bacon, Nat. Hist. 
The oxidation in the body is carried on by the tissues 
themselves ; . . . the blood is merely a carrier, and the 
lungs are the vehicle of discharge. 
W. L. Carpenter, Energy in Nature, p. 198. 
Specifically 2. One who for hire undertakes 
the conveyance of goods or persons. The law 
distinguishes between common carriers and private or 
special carrier*. One who carries not as a business, but 
only on occasion by special agreement, is termed a private 
or special carrier. One who holds himself out as a car- 
rier, inviting the employment of the public generally, is a 
common carrier. He is bound to serve without favoritism 
all who desire to employ him, and is liable for the safety 
of goods intrusted to him, except by losses from the act 
of God or from public enemies, or unless special exemp- 
tion has been agreed upon ; and in respect to the safety 
of passengers carried he is liable for injuries which he 
carrion 
might have prevented by special eare. The most familiar 
i if common eat lie] . aiv ] aihoad companies, 
eoaeli proprietors, expressmen, truckmen, shipowners, 
steamlioat-lines, liu'litei men, ami ferrymen. The special 
i liability uhieh the law, for reasons of public 
P"li< v, im|>obcs on common eanie i. s ha\e nt bet n applied 
in their full extent to the bnsine.-s of drovers, owners of 
tow-lxmU, Ion-drivers, and others who do not literally 
carry the property intrusted to them ; nor aie telegraph 
companies deemed common carriers in le.spcet to the 
messages they transmit. 
3. A carrier-pigeon. 4f. One who manages or 
arranges affairs. 
A master of the duel, a ntn-ii-r of the differences. 
/,'. ./on.-i.ii. Mcieiiry \ indicated. 
5. In niin-li. : (") A piece of iron fixed by a set- 
screw on the end of a shaft or spindle to be 
turned in a lathe, or to a mandrel on which 
a round object is driven for the purjio.se of be- 
ing turned ; a lathe-dog. A projection in the 
center-chuck or face-plate drives tlie carrier 
around. (It) The distributing-roller of a eiird- 
ing-machine. 1C. II. Knight, (c) A roller be- 
tween the drum and the feeding-rollers of a 
scribbling-machine, for spinning wool. /.". //. 
Knight. (<l) In a braiding-machine, a spool- or 
bobbin-holder which follows in a curved path 
intersecting the paths of other bobbins, and so 
lays up the thread into a braid. E. II. Knight, 
(e) A hoist, as the mold-carrier in sugar-works. 
(/) Part of the breech-action of a magazine- 
gun. See carrier-ring. 6. Ail oyster that 
will bear transportation well. [U. S.] Bar- 
bary carrier. Same as barbs, 2. Carrier's sauce, 
poor man's sauce. See sauce. 
carrier 2 !, and v. An old spelling of career. 
carrier-bird (kar'i-er-berd), n. Same as car- 
rier-pigeon. 
As light as carrier-birds In air. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxv. 
carrier-pigeon (kar'i-er-pij*on), n. A pigeon 
of a particular breed trained to convey from 
one place to another written messages tied to 
the neck or wing, or more commonly to the leg. 
The destination of the message must be some point near 
the pigeon's home, whither it will fly back from any place 
to which It has been carried ; hence it is also called the 
homing-pigeon. The distance from which it will return to 
its home, 'when in perfect condition, may be a thousand 
miles or more. 
Prayer is Innocence's friend ; and willingly fllcth incessant 
Twixt the earth and the sky. the carrier-pigeon of heaven. 
Longfellow, Children of tlie Lord's Supper. 
carrier-ring (kar'i-er-ring), n. A steel ring 
for supporting the breech-screw of a steel field- 
piece when it is withdrawn from its position 
in the breech and is swung round to open the 
breech for loading. 
The stops, which are fitted into the carrier-ring , , , 
and hold the plug when the carrier-ring is swung back. 
Report of Chief of Ordnance, U.S. A., 1884, p. 512. 
carrier-shell (kar'i-er-shel), . A name of 
shells of the family Phoridw, as Xenophora con- 
chylophora, given because 
they attach ?o themselves 
foreign bodies, as shells, 
stones, and corals. Also 
called conchologist and 
mineralogist. 
carrikt, carriket, Mid- 
dle English forms of ca- 
rack. 
carrion (kar'i-on), n. and 
a. [< ME. carton, ciiryon, 
also caroin, caroyne, ca- 
reyne, carmine, caraigiie, 
caren, etc., < OF. caroigiie, fXt 
chnroigne, carongnc, F. 
carogne = Pr. caronha = Sp. carroila = It. ca- 
rogna, < ML. caronia, a carcass, < L. caro, flesh : 
see carnal.] I. n. If. A dead body; a corpse; 
a carcass; flesh. 
The chirche schal haue my careyne and kepe mi bones. 
Fun Plowman (A), vii. 84. 
They did eat the dead carrions and one another soon 
after. Spenser, State of Ireland. 
Ravens are seen in flocks where a carrion lies. 
Sir W. Temple. 
Hence 2. A mere carcass: used of a living 
person, as a term of contempt. 
That foolish carrion, Mistress Quickly. 
Shak., M. W. of W., lit 3. 
Yon island carrions, desperate of their hones, 
Ill-favour'dly become the morning Held. 
Shak., Hen. V., iv. 2. 
3. The dead and putrefying body or flesh of 
animals; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for 
food. 
As one 
That smells a foul-flesh'd agaric in the holt. 
And deems it carrion of sume woodland thing. 
Tennyson, Gareth and Lynettc. 
Carrier-shell 
ittra conchylophora). 
