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The carriage or quality of a gentleman.

Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise. Dunglison.

Any wheeled cart or carriage. [India]

or gibs; to provide with a gib, or gibs. Gibbed lathe, an engine lathe in which the tool carriage is held down to the bed by a gib instead of by a weight.

A light carriage, with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a kind of chaise.

A four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two inside seats, calash top, and seats for driver and footman.

es; specifically, a person employed to lubricate the working parts of machinery, engines, carriages, etc.

Of or pertaining to Greece; Greek. Grecian bend, among women, an affected carriage of the body, the upper part being inclined forward. [Collog.] -- Grecian fire. See Greek fire, under Greek.

, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunting and carriage horses.

The driver of a hack or carriage for public hire.

A carriage kept for hire; a hack; a hackney coach.

A man who lets horses and carriages for hire.

To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct; as, to hand a lady into a carriage.

A light, low, two-wheeled covered carriage with the driver's seat elevated behind, the reins being passed over the top. He hailed a cruising hansom . . . " 'Tis the gondola of London," said Lothair. Beaconsfield.

The equipment of a draught or carriage horse, for drawing a wagon, coach, chaise, etc.; gear; tackling.

Indicating haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage. Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced, Came towering. Milton.

he place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head.

A carriage specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave.

See Hearse, a carriage for the dead.

A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.