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word, implying attention or inclination, in any degree 
more or lefs : it is commonly ufed in the phrafe, tv lake 
care. —We take care to flatter oiirfelves with imaginary 
f'cenes and profpedts of future happitjefs. Allerbury. —The 
objeA of care, of caution., or of love : 
O my poor kingdom, fiek with civil blows 1 
When that my 'care could not withhold thy riots, 
What wilt thou do when’Viot is thy care ? Shahefpeare. 
“Cake will kill a cat," that is, will, in the end, kill 
even tiiofe w ho feeni belt able to withftand it; for a cat is 
fitppofed to have nine lives. The Latins’fay : Cura facit 
canos. The Germans fay : Dis forge machet dor der zeit gran, 
Care makes a man grey before his time. 
“ A pound of Care will not pay an ounce of debt." Ital. 
Cento carre di pcnfieri (a hundred cart-loads of thoughts) 
non pageranno tin uncia di d'ebito. High Germ. Ein pfund 
forgen bezaklet kein quintgen bar gen. By care, in this pro¬ 
verb, is meant unreafona’ole trouble, vexation, and con¬ 
cern, fuch as are rather a hindrance than a futherance to 
bufmefs; and by no means afflduity and induftry, which 
are the propereft means to bring a man out of debt. 
To CARE, v. n. To be anxious or felicitous ; to be in 
concern about any tiling.—She cared not what pain flic 
put her body to, fince the better part, her mind, was laid 
under fo much agony. Sidney. —To be inclined ; to be dif- 
pofed : with for before nouns, or to before verbs.—Hav¬ 
ing been now acquainted, the two fexes did not care to 
part. Addifon. —Great mailers in painting never care for 
drawing people in the fa 111 ion. SpeBator ..—To be afiedied 
with ; to have regard to : with for. —You doat on her that 
cares not fur your love. Shahefpeare. 
CAREA'RA, a town of Perfia, in the province of $e- 
geftan : eighty miles fouth-eaft of Kin. 
CAREBA'RIA, f. [from the head, and / 3 a£og 
weight.] A painful and uneafy heavinefs of the head. 
C A'RECRAZED, adj. Broken with, care and felicitude: 
Thefe both put off a poor petitioner, 
A carecraz'd mother of many children. Shakfpeare. 
7 oCARE'£N, v. a. \_cariner, Fr. from carina, Lat.] In 
fea language, to lay a veffel on one tide, to caulk, hep up 
leaks, refit, or trim the other tide. 
To CARE'EN, v. n. To be in the hate of careening. 
CARE'ER,yi in falconry, a flight or tour of the bird, 
about 120 yards. If the mount more, it is called a double 
career ; if lefs, a femi-career. 
CARE'ER,yi \_carriere, Fr ] The ground on which a 
race is run ; the length of a courfe.—They had runthein- 
felves too far out of breath, to go back again the fame ca¬ 
reer. Sidney. —A courfe ; a race : 
What rein can hold licentious wickednefs, 
When down the hill he holds his fierce career? Shahefpeare. 
Height of fpeed ; fwift motion.—It is related of certain 
Indians, that they are able, when a hoiTe is running in his 
full career, to ftand upright on his back. Wilkins. —Courfe 
of adtion ; uninterrupted procedure: 
Knights in knightly deeds fhould perfevere, 
And (fill continue what at firff they were ; 
Continue and proceed in honour’s fair carter. Dryden. 
To CARE'ER, v. n. To run w ith fwift motion : 
With eyes, the wheels 
Of beryl, and careering fires between. Milton. 
CA'REFUL, ad). Anxious; felicitous; frill of concern. 
•—Martha, thou art careful, and troubled about many 
things, Luke x. 41. —Provident; diligent : with of or for. 
• —Behold, thou haft been carefulfor us with all litis care, 
a Kings. —Watchful; cautious: with of —It concerns 11s 
to be careful of our converfations. Ray. —Subjefl to per¬ 
turbations ; expofed to troubles ; full of anxiety ; full of 
ifolicitude: 
By him that rais’d me to this careful height, 
from that contented hap which I enjoy’d, Shahefpcaic. 
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fcA'REFULLY, eidv. In a manner that fliews care.— 
Envy, how carefully does it look! how meagre and ill- 
complexioncd ! Collier. —Heediully ; watchfully; vigilant¬ 
ly ; attentively.—You come moff carefully upon your hour. 
Shahefpeare. — Providently ; cautioufiy. 
CA'REFU LNESS,/; Vigilance; heedfulnefs; caution. 
CA'RELESLY, adv. Negligently; inattentively; with- 
out care ; lieedkfly : 
Not content to fee 
That others write as car clefly as he. Waller. 
C ARELES'NESS, f. Heedlelhefs ; inattention; negli¬ 
gence ; abfence of care ; manner void of care : 
Who, in the other extreme, only dqth 
Call a rough carclefnefs good fafhion ; 
Whole cloak his fputs tear, or whom he [pits on, 
He cares not. Donne . 
CA'RELESS, adj. Having no care; feeling no felici- 
tude ; unconcerned; negligent ; inattentive ; regardlefs5 
thougktlefs ; neglectful ; unheeding; unthinking; un¬ 
mindful ; with of 'or about. —A woman, the more curious 
(be is about her face, is commonly the more carclefs about 
her houfe. Ben JohnJon —A father, unnaturally carelefs of 
his child, fells or gives hint to another man. Locke. — 
Cheerful ; undifturbed : 
In my cheerful morn of life, 
When nurs’d by carelefs felitude I liv’d. 
And fling of nature with unceafing joy, 
Pleas’d have I w'ander’d through your rough domain. 
Thompfon. 
Unheeded ; thoughtlefs ; unconfidered.—The freedom oi 
laying as many carelefs things as'other people, without be~\ 
ing fo feverely remarked upon. Pope. —Unmoved by ^ 
unconcerned at: 
Carelefs of thunder from the clouds that break, 
My only omens from your looks I take. Granville. 
CARE'LIA, the eaflern province of Finland, now tin? 
the government of Viborg. This country became part of 
Sweden in 1293. In 1338, part of it was furrendered to 
Rulfia ; and 1111721, the greater part of the remainder was ' 
given up to the empire. 
CARELSCROO'N. See Carlscrona; 
CARE'MA, a town of Piedmont, in the marquifate of 
Ivrea.; fix miles north-weft of Ivrea. 
CAREMBOU'LE, a town of the ifland of Madagaf- 
car, near the feuth coaft. Lat. 25. 20. S. Ion. 66. 15. W. 
Ferro. 
CA'RBINAGE BAY, a bay on the weft coaft of tlie 
ifland of St. Lucia. Lat. 13.'35. N. Ion. 60. 50. W. Gr. 
CARENNAC', u town of France, in the department of 
the Lot and Garonne, on the Dordogne : two leagues and 
a half north-weft of St. Cere. 
C AREN TAN', a town of France, and principal place 
of a diftridt, in the department of the Channel, witli a port 
foe fmall veffels ; fituated in a marfr.y foil, which renders 
the air unwholefome. The principal commerce is in but¬ 
ter and cattle : four ports north-north-eaft of Coutances, 
fix feuth of Cherbourg, and thirty-five weft-feuth-wvefi 
■of Paris- Lat. 49. i-S. N. Ion. 16. 24. E. Ferro. 
C AR.ENU'VE, a tow r n of the ifland of Ceylon : fifty- 
four miles north-well of Trincomalee. 
CA'RES, or Ka'rf.is, a town of European Turkey, (1- 
tuated on Mount Athos; the fituation is elevated and plea¬ 
sant ; there ate feveral convents ; and a market every Sa¬ 
turday for corn and other provifions. It is feventeen miles 
fouth-eaft of Saloniki. 
CA'RES, a nation which inhabited Caria, and thought 
themfelves the aborigines, or original poffeifors of tlie 
country. 7 hey became fo powerful that their country was 
not fufficiently extenfive to contain them all, upon which 
they feized the neighbouring iflands of the ./flgean fea. 
Thefe iflands were conquered by Minos king of Crete. Ne. 
lti\, fea of Codrus, invaded their country,- and fiaughtered 
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