CPage 107
- English Word Carrier Definition One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster.
- English Word Carrier Definition That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.
- English Word Carries Definition of Carry
- English Word Carrigeen Definition A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce.
- English Word Carrion Definition The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food.
- English Word Carrion Definition A contemptible or worthless person; -- a term of reproach.
- English Word Carrion Definition Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion.
- English Word Carrol Definition A small closet or inclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. The word was used as late as the 16th century.
- English Word Carrol Definition See 4th Carol.
- English Word Carrom Definition See Carom.
- English Word Carron oil Definition A lotion of linseed oil and lime water, used as an application to burns and scalds; -- first used at the Carron iron works in Scotland.
- English Word Carronade Definition A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship. It has no trunnions, but is supported on its carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side.
- English Word Carrot Definition An umbelliferous biennial plant (Daucus Carota), of many varieties.
- English Word Carrot Definition The esculent root of cultivated varieties of the plant, usually spindle-shaped, and of a reddish yellow color.
- English Word Carroty Definition Like a carrot in color or in taste; -- an epithet given to reddish yellow hair, etc.
- English Word Carrow Definition A strolling gamester.
- English Word Carry Definition To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.
- English Word Carry Definition To have or hold as a burden, while moving from place to place; to have upon or about one's person; to bear; as, to carry a wound; to carry an unborn child.
- English Word Carry Definition To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.
- English Word Carry Definition To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account to the ledger; to carry a number in adding figures.