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without ceremony. They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach. T. Hook. To bundle off, to send off in a hurry, or without ceremony. -- To bundle one's self up, to wrap one's self up warmly or cumbrously.

e street; an out of the way or cross street. He seeks by-streets, and saves the expensive coach. Gay.

ty of land, etc., which it describes. (b) To give an order for; to request. "Whenever the coach stopped, the sailor called for more ale." Marryat. -- To call on, To call upon, (a) To make a short visit to; as, call on a friend. (b) To appeal to; to invite; to request earnestly; as, to call upon a person to make a spee…

A kind of pleasure carriage; a coach. [Obs.] To mount two-wheeled caroches. Butler.

icle in which, or means by which, anything is carried from one place to another; as, stagecoaches, omnibuses, etc., are conveyances; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water. There pipes and these conveyances of our blood. Shak.

A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open. [Eng.]

riage dog, shaped like a pointer, and having black or bluish spots on a white ground; the coach dog.

ocean, having a blackish, leathery expansion, shaped somewhat like an apron. -- Devil's coachhorse. (Zoöl.) (a) The black rove beetle (Ocypus olens). [Eng.] (b) A large, predacious, hemipterous insect (Prionotus cristatus); the wheel bug. [U.S.] -- Devil's darning-needle. (Zoöl.) See under Darn, v. t. -- Devil's fin…

A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.

A kind of stagecoach. "The Derby dilly." J. H. Frere.

A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage. [Collog.] Thackeray.

iage; to proceed by directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the coachman drove to my door.

The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive.

for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway.

A kind of French hackney coach.

The foot-rest of a coachman's box.

as, a four- in-hand team; drawn by four horses driven by one person; as, a four- in-hand coach. -- n.

One who has charge of a mail coach or a railway train; a conductor. [Eng.]

A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach. On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots. Pope.

A carriage kept for hire; a hack; a hackney coach.