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An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship.

A boat or raft used in the East Indies in the landing of passengers and goods.

A room in ship for officers or passengers. Cabin boy, a boy whose duty is wait on the officers and passengers in the cabin of a ship.

A Scotch errand boy, porter, or messenger. [Written also cady.] Every Scotchman, from the peer to the cadie. Macaulay.

The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top.

The basket, box, or cage suspended from a ballon to contain passengers, ballast, etc.

A covered vehicle for carrying passengers or for moving furniture, etc.; -- sometimes shorted into van.

Placed in a caroche. [Obs.] Beggary rides caroched. Massenger.

One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger. The air which is but . . . a carrier of the sounds. Bacon.

two-wheeled, boxlike vehicle usually drawn by a single native pony and used to convey passengers within city limits or for traveling. It is the common public carriage.

unt of money received, disbursed, and on hand. -- Cash boy, in large retail stores, a messenger who carries the money received by the salesman from customers to a cashier, and returns the proper change. [Colloq.] -- Cash credit, an account with a bank by which a person or house, having given security for repayment, dr…

A messenger or servant wearing an official badge. [Anglo- Indian]

A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing- room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car.

ant vessels of an enemy. Not being intended to fight, they may be improvised from fast passenger steamers.

aire familiar to European travelers performs miscellaneous services as a light porter, messenger, solicitor for hotels, etc.

A messenger sent with haste to convey letters or dispatches, usually on public busuness. The wary Bassa . . . by speedy couriers, advertised Solyman of the enemy's purpose. Knolles.

better; as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap. Beaconsfield. Thackeray. The passengers eagerly craning forward over the bulwarks. Howells.

back and forth. A far cry, a long distance; -- in allusion to the sending of criers or messengers through the territory of a Scottish clan with an announcement or summons.

The roof of a passenger car.

A railway station; a building for the accommodation and protection of railway passenges or freight. [U. S.]