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Halliwell. -- To carry coals to Newcastle, to take things to a place where they already abound; to lose one's labor. -- To carry off (a) To remove to a distance. (b) To bear away as from the power or grasp of others. (c) To remove from life; as, the plague carried off thousands. -- To carry on (a) To carry farther;…

The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry. "The celibacy of the clergy." Hallom.

One who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by vows not to marry.

A bale or package. covered with hide, or with wood bound with hide; as, a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.

Bound; measure. [Obs.] The poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess. Shak.

Abounding in, or resembling, chaff. Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail. Coleridge.

Abounding with charms. "His charmful lyre." Cowley.

Of or pertaining to a chasm; abounding in chasms. Carlyle. They cross the chasmy torrent's foam-lit bed. Wordsworth.

A figure bounded by a thousand plane surfaces [Spelt also chiliaëdron.]

Abounding in, or resembling, chips; dry and tasteless.

The best part; that which is preferable. The flower and choice Of many provinces from bound to bound. Milton. To make a choice of, to choose; to select; to separate and take in preference.

Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile. Dryden.

ed granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imdedded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.

A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center.

In the form of, or bounded by, a circle; round.

To include in a circular space; to bound. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To inclose within a certain limit; to hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain. To circumscribe royal power. Bancroft.

Capable of being circumscribed or limited by bounds.

The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit. The circumscriptions of terrestrial nature. Johnson. I would not my unhoused, free condition Put into circumscription and confine. Shak.

Abounding with circumstances; detailing or exhibiting all the circumstances; minute; particular. Tedious and circumstantial recitals. Prior. Circumstantial evidence (Law), evidence obtained from circumstances, which necessarily or usually attend facts of a particular nature, from which arises presumption. According to…