carry 
The name 
Of friend's too narrow for him, and 1 want 
A word that carriet more divinity. 
Shirley, Love's Cruelty, i. 1. 
In some vegetables we see somi-thini; thatrrrieakiml 
of analogy to sense. XiY il. /'''', orig. of Mankind. 
14. To hold or bear the charge of ; keep in pos- 
session or on hand for disposal or management: 
as, to earn/ a large stock of goods ; to carry stocks 
or bonds for a customer. 15. Reflexively, to 
behave ; demean ; deport. [Now rare in this 
sense, bear being used instead.] 
He i-nrii'i! liiiii'lf mi insolently in the house, and out 
of the house, to all persons, that In hecanic odious. 
Clami'lon. 
16 1. To hold or entertain as an opinion ; uphold. 
Divers other foul errors were discovered, which had 
been secretly carried by way of Inquiry, but after were 
maintained by Mrs. llutchinson and others. 
Vinthrufi, Hist. New England, I. 304. 
17f. To bear up under ; endure; undergo. 
Is it in the power 
Of flesh and blood to carry this, and live? 
Beau, and Ft., Philaster, v. 6. 
Carry arms (milit.), an order to a company or regiment 
directing the musket or ritle to be held in the right hand, 
the barrel nearly vertical and resting in the hollow of the 
shoulder with thi! guard to the front, the arm hanging its 
full length near the body, the thumb and forefinger em- 
bracing the guard, the .stock just under the hammer being 
grasped by the remaining fingers, with the little finger rest- 
ing on the hammer. To carry a bone in the mouth. 
See bonei. To carry a scent, in fox-hunting, to follow 
the scent. To carry away, (a) Naut., (t> break off : as, 
the ship has carried away her jib-boom (that is, has broken 
it off). Also said of a rope or chain parted by violence. 
A spar is carried away when it is broken or disabled. 
Qualtrouffh, Boat-Sailer's Manual, p. 244. 
(b) Figuratively, to transport ; absorb the attention of ; 
lead astray or beyond bounds : as, to be carried away by 
music ; his passion carried him away. 
Carried away by the delusions of fancy, I almost ima- 
gine myself surrounded by the shades of the departed, and 
holding sweet converse with the worthies of antiquity. 
Irointt, Knickerbocker, p. 140. 
To carry a weather helm (naut.\ to keep the helm, 
or have it kept, as a ship, a little to the windward side 
in steering a straight course, close-hauled. TO carry 
coalst, to bear injuries ; put up with an affront. 
Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals. 
Shak., R. and J., i. 1. 
To carry coals to Newcastle, to take things to a place 
where they already abound, Newcastle being in a great 
coal-producing region ; hence, to perform unnecessary la- 
bor ; lose one's labor. To carry it Off, to bear out ; face 
through ; brazen a thing out. To carry Off. (a) To re- 
move to a distance. (6) To kill : as, to be carried o/ by 
sickness. 
This was followed by a fit of sickness, which had like to 
have carried her off last winter. Steele, Tatler, No. 95. 
To carry on, to manage or be engaged in ; continue to 
prosecute ; keep in progress : as, to carry on husbandry or 
war ; to carry on a person's business in his absence. 
They endeavoured in the War time to have Printed 
Monthly Transactions or Memoires after the manner of 
ours in London ; but could not carry them on above two 
Volumes or Years, for without great Correspondence this 
can hardly be done. Litter, Journey to Paris, p. 78. 
To carry one's bat, in cricket, not to be put out : said of 
that one of the last two batsmen on one side who, though 
not put out, has to cease playing when his partner is put 
out. To carry out. (a) To bear from within. 
When I have said good-night for evermore, 
And you see me carried out from the threshold of the door. 
Tennyson, May Queen, ii. 
(b) To prosecute to the end ; bring to a consummation ; ac- 
complish ; finish ; execute : as, he carried out his purpose. 
To carry the day, to be successful against opposition ; 
triumph, as or as if in battle. 
In the mind of a mental pathologist the progress of 
spiritualism, with its revived thirst for miracles, might 
awaken unpleasant recollections of the second century 
the eve of the era when St. Gregory Thaumaturgus car- 
ried the day against the protests of the Roman Huxleys 
and Carpenters. Pop. Set. Mo., XXII. 475. 
To carry the house (theat.), to gain enthusiastic ap- 
plause from all parts of the house; gain the favor or 
approval of all present. To carry the wind, in the 
manege, to toss the nose as high as the ears: said of a 
horse. To carry the world before one, to meet with 
uninterrupted success ; be very successful in spite of op- 
position. 
Gentlemen with broad chests and ambitious intentions 
do sometimes disappoint their friends by failing to carry 
the imrld before them. George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, 11. 4. 
To carry through, to support to the end; sustain or 
keep from falling or failing ; accomplish. 
II. intrans. 1. To act as a bearer; be em- 
ployed in transportation. 
A horse cannot fetch, but only carry. 
Shak., T. 0. of V., ill. 1. 
2. To bear the head in a particular manner, as 
a horse. When a horse holds his head high, with an 
arching neck, he is said to carry well ; when he lowers his 
head too much, he is said to carry low. 
3. To act as a conductor ; be a guiding or im- 
pelling agent. 
Those flames of lusts which haue come from hell, and 
carrie thither. Purchai, Pilgrimage, p. 68. 
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4. To propel a miHsile ; exert propelling force : 
as, a gun or mortar mrrii-x well or ill. 
If any man impute these victories of ours to the long- 
bow, as carrying further, piercing more strongly, and 
quicker of discharge than the French crosslww ; my an- 
swer is ready. Italeiy/i, in Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 71. 
5f. To behave or deport one's self. 
He,', i,,-;,ii so mutinously ami seditiously, as that he was 
fur the same, and Inr his turbulent carriages towards both 
magistrates and ministers, in the presence of the emui, 
sentenced to find sureties for his good behaviour. 
.V. Mnrtun, New IjiL'land's Memorial, p. 2o:i. 
6. In falconry, to fly away with the quarry: 
said of a hawk. 7. In Iniiitinif, to run on 
ground or hoar frost which sticks to the feet, 
as a hare. 8f. To ride. 
Thus in peryl, A payne, & plytes ful harde, 
Bi contrary caryeg this knyjt, tyl kryst-massc euen. 
Sir Oaieayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 7:i4. 
To carry on. (a) A'aut., to continue carrying a large 
spread of canvas. 
A vessel close hauled could have shown no more than a 
single close-reefed sail ; but as we were going before It 
[the wind}, we could earn/ on. 
It. It. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 386. 
(6) To conduct one's self in a wild, frolicsome, or thought- 
less manner ; riot ; frolic. [Colloq. ] 
Master Jeremy carried on so and laughed. 
/<. D. Blackinore, Lorna Doone, p. 380. 
To fetch and carry. See fetch. 
carry (kar'i), n. ; pi. carries (-iz). [< carry, v.} 
1 . Land which separates navigable waters and 
across which a canoe or other boat must be car- 
ried; a detour around obstructions in a stream ; 
a portage. 2. The act of carrying a canoe or 
boat and its freight over land separating nav- 
igable waters, or around obstructions in a 
stream. 3. The motion of the clouds as they 
are carried by the wind ; the clouds themselves 
thus carried; cloud-drift. [Scotch.] 
The carry Is now brisk from the west 
Caledonian Mercury. 
Hence 4. The firmament or sky. [Scotch.] 
Mirk and rainy Is the night, 
No a starn in a' the carry. TannahM. 
5. A wagon. [Prov. Eng.] 6. In falconry, 
the manner in which a hawk flies away with 
the quarry. 7. The position of a weapon when 
the military command to carry arms is complied- 
with: as, to bring a rifle to the carry. 
carryall (kar'i-al), . [Altered from cariolt, 
simulating carry + all.'} A light, covered, four- 
wheeled family carriage, with two seats, drawn 
by one horse. [U. 8.] 
carrying (kar'i-ing), a. and n. [Ppr. and verbal 
n. of carry, .] L a. 1. Bearing; conveying; 
supporting: as. the carrying capacity of a ves- 
sel. 2. Requiring or necessitating portage. 
The waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Law- 
rence, and the carrying places between them, . . . were 
made common highways and forever free. 
Bancroft, Hist. Const., II. 114. 
II. . The act of bearing or conveying; the 
business of transportation Carrying -cloth. 
Same as bearing-cloth. Carrying-trade, the trade or 
business of transporting goods, especially fay water, from 
country to country, or from place to place. 
With the exception of the railway interest, no branch 
of business has increased so rapidly within recent yean 
as the ocean carrying trade. 
D. A. Wells, Merchant Marine, p. 43. 
carrying-on (kar'i-ing-on), . 1. Frolicsome 
or riotous behavior : usually in the plural, car- 
ryings-on. [Colloq.] 2. Xaut., the keeping 
of an excessive press of sail on a ship. 
carry-talet (kar'i-tal), n. A tale-bearer. 
Some carry-tale, tome please-man, some slight zany, . . . 
Told our intents before. Shak., L. L. L., v. 2. 
carsackie (kar-sak'i), n. A coarse loose jacket 
with a waist-band, worn by workmen over their 
clothes ; a jumper. [Scotch.] 
carse 1 *, . An obsolete form of cress. 
carse 2 (kars), n. [So., formerly kers, kerss; per- 
haps a pi. form of car, a bog or fen, low wet 
land: see car 2 . Cf. W. cors, bog, fen, corsen 
= Bret, cors, corsen, bog-plant. The Gael. 
cars, carse, seems to be borrowed from Sc.] 
In Scotland, a stretch of fertile alluvial land 
along the side of a stream ; the low-lying part 
of a valley that is watered by a river, as dis- 
tinguished from the higher grounds: as, the 
carse of Gowrie ; the carse of Stirling. Carses 
are now regarded by geologists as raised beaches 
or terraces. 
carse 3 (kars), . A dry measure formerly used 
in some parts of France. 
car-seal (kar'sel), n. A clasp of soft metal de- 
signed to bind the ends of a wire passed through 
the lock of the door of a freight-car. By means 
carte 
of a hand-tool the clasp is firmly joined to the ends of the 
wire, thus sealing the door, which eannot lie opened with- 
outcutting the wire or breaking the seal. 
car-spring (kiir'spring), w. A spring serving to 
lessen the jar of a railroad-car. The device 
furthi^ pin i * 'liiif.'ly nun ling of 
elastie iHhinns, levers, or plates like ordinary carriage- 
springs, crimped plates, spiral ami helical springs, etc. 
car-standard (kto'etoa'dfrd), . In for., a 
bearing representing a standard borne on a 
four-wheeled car. See cm K><-< ,,,. 
car-Starter (kiir'star'ter), n. 1. A device l,y 
which the momentum of a street-car is utilized 
in overcoming its inertia in starting again af- 
ter stopping: this is usually effected by menus 
of springs. 2. One who gives the order in- 
signal for starting a horse-car or railway-train 
at a station ; a car- or train-despatcher. 
car-swallow, carr-swallow (kur'nwol"6), n. 
[Prob. < car*, a marshy place (where it always 
breeds), + swallow.] A name of the black tern, 
fitcriiti or /li/ilr<>cli< /iiluii lixsi/x-s. 
cart (kiirt), 'n. [< ME. cart, kart, < AS. eraet, 
transposed from "cart, = D. krat, kret = Icel. 
l.-in-ir; of Celtic origin: < W. cart = Gael, and 
Ir. cairt, a cart, dim. of Ir. carr = Gael, car, a 
car: see car 1 , and cf. cliarct, chariot.} If. A 
car or chariot. 
What the sonnes sonne . . . 
That highte Phetoun [I'haethon | wolde lede 
Algate his fader carte. 
Chaucer, House of Fame, II. 433. 
2. A two-wheeled vehicle, shorter and higher 
set than a car, usually for one horse and often 
without springs, for the conveyance of heavy 
goods. 
Provide some carts, 
And bring away the armour that is there. 
Shak., Rich. II., U. 2. 
Packing all his goods in one pom- cart. 
Dryden, tr. of Juvenal's Satires. 
3. A cart-load. A cart of coals was formerly 
in England 8| hundredweight by statute To 
put (or get) the cart before the horse, to reverse the 
proper order of (two) things. 
Nowe, hitherto the chiefe care of governannce hath bin 
to the land, being the meaneste ; and to the bodle, being 
the better, very small ; but to the mynde, being the best, 
none at all, which methinkes is playnely to sett the carte 
before the horse. 
Quoted in Forewords to Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. xxiii. 
Village cart, an uncovered two-wheeled cartage for one 
horse, with a low body and but one seat. Whitechapel 
cart, a light two-wheeled spring-cart, such as is used by 
butchers, etc., for delivering goods to their customers : so 
named from being a style of vehicle originally much used 
about Whitechapel in London. Often called chapel-cart. 
cart (kart), v. [< ME. cartcn } < cart, n.] I. 
trans. 1. To carry or convey in a cart: as, to 
cart goods. 
Thespis was first, who, all besmear'd with lee, 
Began this pleasure for posterity : 
And with his carted actors, ami a song, 
Amus'd the people as he pass'd along. 
Dryden, Art of Poetry, lit. 495. 
2*. To expose in a cart, by way of punishment. 
Thou shalt therefore bee taken out of thy proude Char- 
iot, and bee carted. Dekker, Seven Deadly Sins, p. 29. 
She chuckled when a bawd was carted. Pope. 
U. intrans. To use carts for carriage. 
Oxen are not so good for draught where you have occa- 
sion to cart much, but for winter ploughing. 
Mortimer, Husbandry. 
cartaceous, a. See ciiartaceous. 
cartage (kar'taj), n. [< cart + -age.} 1. The 
act of carrying in a cart. 2. The price paid for 
carting. 
cartaret (kar'ta-ret), . [Appar. from the 
proper name Carteret.} A sleeping-cot. Ste- 
phens. 
cart-aver (kart'a"ver), n. A cart-horse. 
[Scotch.] 
cart-body (kart'bod'i), n. [< ME. cartebody; < 
cart + body.} That portion of a cart which 
rests on the axle, and contains or supports the 
burden. 
cart-bote (kart'bot), . In old Eng. law, wood 
to which a tenant was entitled for making and 
repairing agricultural implements. 
carte 1 (kart), . [F.. a card: see card*.} 1. A 
bill of fare at a hotel or restaurant. See a la 
carte. 2. An abbreviation for carte-de-risite : 
usually called card. 
carte 2 (kart), . [Also written quarte, < F. 
quarte, a movement in fencing, lit. fourth : see 
quart.} A movement in fencing, consisting in 
throwing the hand as far as possible on the in- 
side, with the point of the sword toward the 
adversary's breast. Also written quarte. 
The mystery of carte and tierce. 
Byron, Don Juan, ivi. 119. 
High carte, a thrust given inside the arm and aimed 
at the right breast, the wrist, in supination, raised about 
