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A carriage of state or of pleasure with all that accompanies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a showy turn-out. The rumbling equipages of fashion . . . were unknown in the settlement of New Amsterdam. W. Irving.

in trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system. The English excise system corresponds to the internal revenue system in the Un…

The bassoon; -- so called from being divided into parts for ease of carriage, making, as it were, a small fagot.

Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail. "His highness' fail of issue." Shak.

A screen to protect a carriage from mud thrown off the wheels: also, a splashboard.

a thousand years. -- Fifth wheel, a horizontal wheel or segment above the fore axle of a carriage and beneath the body, forming an extended support to prevent careening.

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. Mortimer. Fill horse, a thill horse. Shak.

quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended for passengers who pay the highest regular rate; -- distinguished from a second-class car.

A bed in a gun carriage. [Obs.] Bailey.

A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse. [Eng.]

The driver of a fly, or light public carriage.

Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage. Milton. Nor e'er was fate so near a foil. Dryden.

A man in waiting; a male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc.

The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods. Wharton.

Charge for transportation; expense of carriage.

The necessary appendages to anything, as to a machine, a carriage, a ship, etc.

The jaws between which the hinder end of a carriage tongue is inserted. Knight.

Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving. 'T is Cinna; I do know him by his gait. Shak.

A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber. Farrow. Galloper gun, a light gun, supported on a galloper, -- formerly attached to British infantry regiments.

o the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles. Gauge of a carriage, car, etc., the distance between the wheels; -- ordinarily called the track. -- Gauge cock, a stop cock used as a try cock for ascertaining the height of the water level in a steam boiler. -- Gauge concussion (Railroads…