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One of the two main arteries of the neck, by which blood is conveyed from the aorta to the head.

The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying. Nine days employed in carriage. Chapman.

Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. [R.] Ruskin.

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

, a light, 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.

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off. When he dieth he small carry nothing away. Ps. xiix. 17. Devout men carried Stephen to his burial. Acts viii, 2. Another carried the intelligence to Russell. Macaulay. The sound will be carried, at the least, twenty mile…

To carry or convey in a cart.

A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.

uneral solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial.

Conveying a caution, or warning to avoid danger; as, cautionary signals.

ny kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons. A challenge to controversy. Goldsmith.

That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels. The veins are converging channels. Dalton. At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National assembly such matter as may import that body to know. Burke.

To convey in a chariot. Milton.

due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance. [Archaic]

One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.

ed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.

[Chyle + -ferous: cf. F. chylifère.] (Physiol.) Transmitting or conveying chyle; as, chyliferous vessels.

To convey in a coach. Pope.

To impart; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank. Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences. Jer. Taylor.

That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument. [Obs.] Although thou been conduct of my chame. Shak.