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The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management. The passage and whole carriage of this action. Shak. Carriage horse, a horse kept for drawing a carriage. -- Carriage porch (Arch.), a canopy or roofed pavilion covering the driveway at the entrance to any building. It is intended as a shelter for those…

The whole body of decorative sculpture of any kind or epoch, or in any material; as, the Italian carving of the 15th century.

or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose. The man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and nights in the saddle. Prescott.

Incomplete; partial; not affecting the whole of a substance. Abney.

Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for the horse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations.

That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish. Hector shall have a great catch if he knock out either of your brains. Shak.

on, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category. There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category. De Quincey.

The faith of the whole orthodox Christian church, or adherence thereto.

A stem structure or stem axis of a plant, viewed as a whole. -- Cau*lom"ic (#), a.

y of motion; quickness; swiftness. Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight. Johnson.

o which the essential element of every tissue, either vegetable or animal, is a cell; the whole series of cells having been formed from the development of the germ cell and by differentiation converted into tissues and organs which, both in plants ans animals, are to be considered as a mass of minute cells communicatin…

consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by ce…

Relating to, or containing, a census. He caused the whole realm to be described in a censual roll. Sir R. Baker.

the Erytheræa Centaurium and the Chlora perfoliata of Europe, but is also extended to the whole genus Sabbatia, and even to the unrelated Centaurea.

The state or condition of being central; the combination of several parts into one whole; centralization.

te of being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole; as, the centralization of power in the general government; the centralization of commerce in a city.

Work formed of clay in whole or in part, and baked; as, vases, urns, etc. Knight.

ade when the ballot is offered. [U. S.] Challenge to the array (Law), an exception to the whole panel. -- Challenge to the favor, the alleging a special cause, the sufficiency of which is to be left to those whose duty and office it is to decide upon it. -- Challenge to the polls, an exception taken to any one or mor…

joint or finger closing againts a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be ised for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike.

The whole body of Christians. Hooker.