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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Carry \Car"ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Carried}; p. pr & vb n. {Carrying}.] [OF. carier, charier, F. carrier, to cart, from OF car char, F. car car See {Car}.] 1. To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off When he dieth he small carry nothing away --Ps. xiix. 17. Devout men carried Stephen to his burial. --Acts viii, 2. Another carried the intelligence to Russell. --Macaulay. The sound will be carried, at the least, twenty miles. --Bacon. 2. 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. If the ideas . . . were carried along with us in our minds. --Locke. 3. To move to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide. Go carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet. --Shak. He carried away all his cattle. --Gen. xxxi. 18. Passion and revenge will carry them too far --Locke. 4. 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. 5. To convey by extension or continuance; to extend; as to carry the chimney through the roof; to carry a road ten miles farther. 6. To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence to succeed in as in a contest; to bring to a successful issue; to win; as to carry an election. ``The greater part carries it.'' --Shak. The carrying of our main point. --Addison. 7. To get possession of by force; to capture. The town would have been carried in the end --Bacon. 8. To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of to show or exhibit; to imply. He thought it carried something of argument in it --Watts. It carries too great an imputation of ignorance. --Lacke. 9. To bear (one's self); to behave, to conduct or demean; -- with the reflexive pronouns. He carried himself so insolently in the house, and out of the house, to all persons, that he became odious. --Clarendon. 10. To bear the charges or burden of holding or having as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another; as a merchant is carrying a large stock; a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance. {Carry arms} (Mil. Drill), a command of the Manual of Arms directing the soldier to hold his piece in the right hand, the barrel resting against the hollow of the shoulder in a nearly perpendicular position. In this position the soldier is said to stand and the musket to be held, at carry. {To carry all before one}, to overcome all obstacles; to have uninterrupted success. {To carry arms} a To bear weapons. b To serve as a soldier. {To carry away}. a (Naut.) to break off to lose; as to carry away a fore-topmast. b To take possession of the mind; to charm; to delude; as to be carried by music, or by temptation. {To carry coals}, to bear indignities tamely, a phrase used by early dramatists, perhaps from the mean nature of the occupation. --Halliwell. {To carry coals to Newcastle}, to take things to a place where they already abound; to lose one's labor. {To carry off} a To remove to a distance. b To bear away as from the power or grasp of others c To remove from life; as the plague carried off thousands. {To carry on} a To carry farther; to advance, or help forward; to continue; as to carry on a design. b To manage, conduct, or prosecute; as to carry on husbandry or trade {To carry out}. a To bear from within. b To put into execution; to bring to a successful issue. c To sustain to the end to continue to the end {To carry through}. a To convey through the midst of b To support to the end to sustain, or keep from falling, or being subdued. ``Grace will carry us . . . through all difficulties.'' --Hammond. c To complete; to bring to a successful issue; to succeed. {To carry up}, to convey or extend in an upward course or direction; to build. {To carry weight}. a To be handicapped; to have an extra burden, as when one rides or runs. ``He carries weight, he rides a race'' --Cowper. b To have influence. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Carrying \Car"ry*ing\, n. The act or business of transporting from one place to another. {Carrying place}, a carry; a portage. {Carrying trade}, the business of transporting goods, etc., from one place or country to another by water or land; freighting. We are rivals with them in . . . the carrying trade --Jay.
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