CAREER

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A race course: the ground run over. To go back again the same career. Sir P. Sidney.

2.
n.

A running; full speed; a rapid course. When a horse is running in his full career. Wilkins.

3.
n.

General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a pubic character; as, Washington's career as a soldier. An impartial view of his whole career. Macaulay.

4.
n.

The fight of a hawk.

5.
v.

To move or run rapidly. areering gayly over the curling waves. W. Irving.

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