cairt

[ME. cairen, cayren, kairen, kayren, go, appar. kjöre ), drive, urge. A diff. word from the equiv. charl, go.] I. in trans. To go. I am come hither a venterous Knight, And kayred thorrow countrye farr. Percy Folio MS . , Piers Plowman, Notes, p. 5. Calcas! Calcas! cair yow not home, Ne turne neuer to Troy, for tene that may falle. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), L. 4501. We may kayre til hys courte, the kyngdome of hevyne, Whene oure saules schalle parte and sundyre ffra the body. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6. Better wol he spryng and higher caire Wel rare yf he be plannted for to growe. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 143. II. trans . To carry. The can dels tik bi a cost watz cayred thider sone. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 1478. Ça ira (sä ē-rä'). [F., 'it [the Revolution] will go on': ça , contr. of cel a , that ( ce , this, + là , there); ira , 3d pers. sing. fut. (a ociated with aller , go: see alley1 ), ire , go.] The earliest of the popular songs of the French Revolution of 1789. Its refrain (whence the name), "Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira," is said to have been suggested by the frequent use of this phrase by Franklin in Paris with reference to the American Revolution. The original words (afterward much changed) were by Ladré, a street singer; and the music was a popular dance-tune of the time composed by Bécourt, a drummer of the Grand Opera. caird (kard), n. [ ceard , a tinker, smith, brazier.] A traveling tinker; a tramp; a vagrant; a gipsy. [Scotch.] Cairene (ki-rēn'), a. and n. [ Cairo, II. n. A native or an inhabitant of Cairo. The people of Suez are a finer and a fairer race than the Cairenes. R. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 118. [NL. (Fleming, 1822); Cairina (kā-ri'nä), n. supposed to be from Cairo in Egypt, though (like turkey, similarly misnamed) the bird is a native of America. It is also called, by another error, muscovy.] A genus of ducks, containing the muscovy or musk-duck, Cairina mos chat a, a native of Central and South America, now found everywhere in domestication. cairn (karn), n. [Esp. Sc., Gael. carn (gen. cairn ) = Ir. W. Manx Corn. Bret. carn, a pile, esp. of stones. Cf. Gael.carn, Ir. carnaim, W. carnu, pile up, heap.] A heap of stones; espe common in Great Britain, particularly in Scotland and Wales, and generally of a conical form. They are of various sizes. Some are evidently sepulchral, containing urns, stone chests, bones, etc. Some were erected to commemorate a great event, others appear to have had a religious significance, while the modern cairn is generally set up as a landmark, or to arrest the attention, as in surveying, or in leaving a record of an exploring party or the like. See barrow1. Cairns for the safe deposit of meat stood in long lines, six or eight in a group. Kane , Sec. Grinn. Exp., II. 277. cairned (karnd), a. [ In the noon of mist and driving rain, When the lake whiten'd and the pine wood roar'd, And the cairn'd mountain was a shadow. Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien. cairngorm (karn'gôrm), n. [So called from the Cairngorm mountain in Scotland; carn (see cairn ) , a heap, a rock, + gorm , blue, also green.] A smoky-yellow or smoky-brown variety of rock-crystal or quartz, found in great perfection on the Cairngorm mountain in Scotland and in many other localities. It is much used for brooches, seals, and other ornaments. The color is probably due to some hydrocarbon compound. Also called cairngorm - stone and smoky quartz . cairn-tangle, carn-tangle (karn'-, kärn tang"gl), n. A name for the seaweed Laminaria di gitata. See Laminaria. [Scotch.]