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The act of carrying in a cart.

Sir W. Scott. Cartel, or Cartel ship, a ship employed in the exchange of prisoners, or in carrying propositions to an enemy; a ship beating a flag of truce and privileged from capture.

A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool. Knight.

t intervals disks or lifts which fit the tube through which the ascending part passes and carry the water to the point of discharge.

To carry publicly in a chair in triumph. [Eng.]

ank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks. Channel bar, Channel iron (Arch.), an iron bar or beam having a section resembling a flat gutter or channel. -- Channel bill (Zoöl.), a very large Australian cucko (Scythrops Novæhollandiæ. -- C…

To bear or carry round. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act or process of carrying about. [Obs.] Circumgestation of the eucharist to be adored. Jer. Taylor.

The act of carrying anything around, or the state of being so carried.

ve value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul. This cold clod of clay which we carry about with us. T. Burnet.

A sailing along a coast, or from port to port; a carrying on a coasting trade.

Carryng on war in conjunction with another power.

An inferior groom or lad employed by an esquire to carry the knight's arms and other necessaries. [Written also coistrel.]

To carry through; to succeed in; as, you can't come any tricks here. [Slang] To come it, to succeed in a trick of any sort. [Slang]

To carry on trade; to traffic. [Obs.] Beware you commerce not with bankrupts. B. Jonson.

Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations. "Princely commercial houses." Macaulay. Commercial college, a school for giving instruction in commercial knowledge and business. -- Commercial law. See under Law. -- Commercial n…

g and quarreling. See Brawler. -- Common carrier (Law), one who undertakes the office of carrying (goods or persons) for hire. Such a carrier is bound to carry in all cases when he has accommodation, and when his fixed price is tendered, and he is liable for all losses and injuries to the goods, except those which hap…

An association of persons for the purpose of carrying on some enterprise or business; a corporation; a firm; as, the East India Company; an insurance company; a joint-stock company.

g signifying the purpose or design of the mind or will, and not, as in common speech, the carrying such design to effect. Blackstone.

To carry; to conduct; -- with a reflexive pronoun. Observe how Lord Somers . . . comported himself. Burke.