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A cord by which a person in a carriage or horse car may signal to the driver.

s, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc.

A machine for raising guns or mortar into their carriages.

A close four-wheeled carriage, with one seat inside, and a seat for the driver.

Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously. [Obs.] "Pope came off clean with Homer." Henley.

A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver.

One of a breed of dogs trained to accompany carriages; the Dalmatian dog.

A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage.

involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion. Composite carriage, a railroad car having compartments of different classes. [Eng.] -- Composite number (Math.), one which can be divided exactly by a number exceeding unity, as 6 by 2 or 3.prime number. -- Composite photograph or portrait…

a ratio compounded of the simple ratios a:c and b:d. -- Compound rest (Mech.), the tool carriage of an engine lathe. -- Compound screw (Mech.), a screw having on the same axis two or more screws with different pitch (a differential screw), or running in different directions (a right and left screw). -- Compound tim…

The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage. The long joirney was to be performed on horseback, -- the only sure mode of conveyamce. Prescott. Following th river downward, there is conveyance into the countries named in the text. Sir W. Raleigh.

A drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill. Knight.

f a French diligence; also, the front compartment (usually for three persons) of a car or carriage on British railways.

A kind of carriage like a gig, orig. of wicker-work.

the and of a dak stage. -- To travel by dak, to travel by relays of palanquines or other carriage, as fast as the post along a road.

Of or pertaining to Dalmatia. Dalmatian dog (Zoöl.), a carriage dog, shaped like a pointer, and having black or bluish spots on a white ground; the coach dog.

Obs.] Till she, o'ercome with anguish, shame, and rage, Danged down to hell her loathsome carriage. Marlowe.

A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh, or other vechicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard.

A four-wheeled carriage, with curtained sides.

Failure; miscarriage. [Obs.] Possibility of defailance in degree or continuance. Comber.