Carrat

See CARAT. Car'raway, n. Same as CARAWAY, q. v. Car'rel, n. See CAROL, and QUARREL. Car'rel, ARMAND, B. 1800, an eminent French political writer, chief editor of the Paris National, and a leader of the moderate Republican party. D. 1836, of a wound he received in a duel with M. Emile de Girardin. Carriage, ( kar'rij,) n. [Fr. charr i age, from charrier, to carry, from char; It. carro; Lat. curr us, a car or -Management; art or manner of projecting and carrying out a plan or measure; method of transaction; as, the carriage of a plot. ( Hist .) Before the 16th century, carriages were only used by kings and the nobility, and the vehicles to which K Fig . 523.-CARRIAGE OF KING JOHN. that name was given were in reality conveyances little better than carts or wagons, in cold or wet weather fitted with a tilt or awning, and being without springs and built strong, to meet the inequalities, and indeed dangers of the road, could seldom go faster than ajog-trot, a comparative degree of speed by no means desirable, when the jolting, which was the natural consequence of any progre ion beyond a walk, is taken into consideration. Though horses were often used in the carriages of the early and middle ages, oxen were by no means unusual; and as both from the pain of riding in an unstuffed conveyance, and the almost impo ibility of going beyond a walk over such abominable roads as in those days everywhere existed, the ox, as being steady and surer of foot than the horse, appears to have been the most useful animal of the two for that purpose. Fig . 523 illustrates the state-carriage of King John of England, who reigned from 1199 to 1216, copied from a manuscript of the time. - See VEHICLE. Carriageable, ( kar'ij - a - bl ,) a. Capable of being conveyed in carriages; as, carriageable commodities. Carriage-horse, n. A horse kept for drawing a carriage.