carrel age (karelaj)

[F., carr i able (kar'i-a-bl), a. [ carry + -able .] Capable of being carried. Sherwood. carriage (kar'āj), n. [Early mod. E. also ca riage, Pg. carruagem, a carriage, cart, = It. car riagio, baggage; ML. cariagium, act or price of transporting), IMG:content-3186.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-3187.png:[blocks in formation] riage, a railway-carriage made up of compartments of different cla es, as first, second, and third: in use in Eng- land and on the continent of Europe. - Sea-coast car- riage, a carriage for supporting heavy guns, used on the IMG:content-3188.png:[blocks in formation] David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1 Sam. 22. The march ants of Constantinople aduised me xvii. to by uncouered cartes of mine owne (such as the Ru ians carrie their skins in), and to put all our carriages , which I would daylie take out, into them. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 94. The coachman rashly driving on, Till coach and carriage both are quite o'erthrown. Middle ton and Rowley , Spanish Gypsy, iii. 1. tion.-State carriage, the carriage of a prince or sov- ereign, used when he appears publicly in state. =Syn. 9. Deportment , Demeanor , etc. See behavior . carriageable (kar'āj-a-bl), a. [ carriage + -able.] 1. Capable of being conveyed in a car- riage or carriages.-2. Pa able by carriages. We drove on for some distance over an old Roman road, as carriageable as when it was built. Lowell , Fireside Travels, p. 232. carriage-bridge (kar'āj-brij), n. Milit . , a bridge made to be moved on wheels, for use in attack- ing fortifications. carriage-company (karaj-kumpa-ni), n . 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 are described as "seeing a great deal of carriage - company . " Thackeray , New comes, ix. 3. A carrier-pigeon.-4t. One who manages or arranges affairs. A master of the duel, a carrier of the differences. B. Jonson, Mercury Vindicated. 5. In mach.: (a) A piece of iron fixed by a set- screw on the end of a shaft or spindle to be Pepys , Diary, June 14, 1664. carriage-free (kar'āj-frē), a . Free of charge for carriage. carriage-guard (kar'āj-gärd), n. A plate on the bed of a carriage where the fore wheel rubs when the carriage is turned. IMG:content-3189.png:[blocks in formation] carriage. E. H. Knight. carriage-piece (kar'āj-pēs), n. In carp ., one of the slanting pieces on which the steps of a wooden staircase are laid. carriage-spring (kar'āj-spring), n. A spring fitted to the gearing of a carriage. The term is applied especially to fine springs used on light vehicles, as distinguished from wagon-springs and car-springs. When of metal they are usually cla ed 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. IMG:content-3190.png:[blocks in formation] carriboo, n. See caribou . carrick1 (kar'ik), n . [Origin obscure.] 1. The ball or block of wood used in the game of shinty.-2. The game of shinty. [Scotch.] carrick2 (kar'ik), n. 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 windla . 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- se ion 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 The violent carriage of it Will clear, or end, the busine . 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. 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 busine , Your constancy is all that is required. B. Jonson , Volpone, iv. 2. 12. In equity practice , 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- 3. Elevated in mind; transported with joy or some other strong emotion; beside one's self. [Obsolete or Scotch in these uses.] IMG:content-3191.png:[blocks in formation] carrier2t, n . and v. An old spelling of career . carrier-bird (kar'i-er-bėrd), n. Same as car- rier - pigeon . As light as carrier - birds in air. Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxv. carrier-pigeon (kar'i-er-pijon), n. A pigeon of a particular breed trained to convey from one place to another written me ages tied to the neck or wing, or more commonly to the leg. The destination of the me age 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 you sand miles or more. they attach to themselves foreign bodies, as shells, stones, and corals. Also called conchologist and mineralogist . carrikt, carriket, n. Mid- dle English forms of ca- rack . carrion (kar'i-on), n . and a. [ caryon , also caroin, caroyne, ca- reyne, carayne, caraigne, caren , etc., OF. caroigne, (Xenophoarrier.shellophora). charoigne, carongne, F. carogne = Pr. caronha = Sp. carroña = It. ca- rogna , ML.car on i a , a carca , caro , flesh: see carnal .] I. n. 11. A dead body; a corpse; a carca ; flesh. The chirche schal haue my careyne and kepe mi bones. Piers 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 carca : used of a living person, as a term of contempt. That foolish carrion , Mistre Quickly. As one That smells a foul-flesh'd agaric in the holt, And deems it carrion of some woodland thing. Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette. carrion II. a. Dead and putrefying, as a carca . Carrion men groaning for burial. Shak ., J. C., iii. 1. carrion-beetle (kar'i-on-bē"tl), n. A necrophagous coleopter; a beetle that feeds upon or deposits its eggs in carrion.