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tinue; as, to carry on a design. (b) To manage, conduct, or prosecute; as, to carry on husbandry or trade. -- To carry out. (a) To bear from within. (b) To put into execution; to bring to a successful issue. (c) To sustain to the end; to continue to the end. -- To carry through. (a) To convey through the midst of. (b…

A two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles. Packing all his goods in one poor cart. Dryden.

to which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.

To disband. [Obs.] Garges.

A forked stick with elasti band for throwing small stones, etc.

Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony. [Colloq.] Marryat.

A kind of noseband used in breaking and training horses. [Written also caveson, causson.] White.

ion of the Roman army; a captain of a century. A centurion of the hand called the Italian band. Acts x. 1.

A covering for the hands of boxers, made of leather bands, and often loaded with lead or iron.

To exchange; to bandy, as words. Spenser.

ssed into the lockers or tiers. -- Chain plate (Shipbuilding), one of the iron plates or bands, on a vessel's side, to which the standing rigging is fastened. -- Chain pulley, a pulley with depressions in the periphery of its wheel, or projections from it, made to fit the links of a chain. -- Chain pumps. See in the…

A spiral band of thickened albuminous substance which exists in the white of the bird's egg, and serves to maintain the yolk in its position; the treadle.

nish. [Obs.] Nores. Thet char is chared, as the good wife said when she had hanged her husband. Old Proverb.

Brigands in bands, who, about 1793, pillaged, burned, and killed in parts of France; -- so called because they used to burn the feet of their victims to extort money.

One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.

With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak.

A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service. [Formerly written also quire.]

A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.

To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words. Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge. Bacon.

One who bandies words or is very argunentative. [Jocular] Shak.