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brick, or other material, so as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material; as, to pave a street; to pave a court. With silver paved, and all divine with gold. Dryden. To pave thy realm, and smooth the broken…

A dynamometer for measuring the force required to draw wheel carriages on roads of different constructions. G. Francis.

A low carriage for a child, propelled by pushing.

A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.

A four-wheeled carriage (with or without a top), open, or having no side pieces, in front of the seat. It is drawn by one or two horses.

nted or relieved with lines, or the like, of a different, usually a lighter, color; as, a carriage body dark green, picked out with red.

An easy chariot or carriage, used by Roman ladies, and in which the vessels, etc., for sacred rites were carried.

A pivot about which the chassis swings, in some kinds of gun carriages.

A dynamometer for ascertaining the power required to draw carriages over roads.

turns about a central vertical axis. -- Pivot gun, a gun mounted on a pivot or revolving carriage, so as to turn in any direction. -- Pivot tooth (Dentistry), an artificial crown attached to the root of a natural tooth by a pin or peg.

imber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, specifically: (a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back. (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported. (c) A Maypole. See Maypole. (d)…

rranean; a lighter. Pontoon bridge, a bridge formed with pontoons. -- Pontoon train, the carriages of the pontoons, and the materials they carry for making a pontoon bridge.

a separate roof. Sometimes the porch is large enough to serve as a covered walk. See also Carriage porch, under Carriage, and Loggia. The graceless Helen in the porch I spied Of Vesta's temple. Dryden.

The manner in which a person bears himself; deportment; carriage; bearing; demeanor; hence, manner or style of living; as, a proud port. Spenser. And of his port as meek as is a maid. Chaucer. The necessities of pomp, grandeur, and a suitable port in the world. South.

The price of carriage; porterage. Bp. Fell.

See Port, carriage, demeanor. [Obs.] Spenser. Shak.

Money charged or paid for the carriage of burdens or parcels by a porter.

for carrying and distributing letters and parcels; the post office; the mail; hence, the carriage by which the mail is transported. I send you the fair copy of the poem on dullness, which I should not care to hazard by the common post. Pope.

Prison ship (Naut.), a ship fitted up for the confinement of prisoners. -- Prison van, a carriage in which prisoners are conveyed to and from prison.

In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc.