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That which is carried; burden; baggage. [Obs.] David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and went up to Jerusalem. Acts. xxi. 15.

Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. [R.] Ruskin.

A small, strong carriage for conveying materials on a railroad. [Eng.]

A disappearing gun carriage in which the recoil is checked by cylinders containing liquid and air, the air when compressed furnishing the power for restoring the gun to the firing position. It is used with some English and European heavy guns.

a desired result or reach a destination. When a counselor, to save himself, Would lay miscarriages upon his prince. Dryden.

Capable of miscarrying; liable to fail. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Act of carrying back.

Transportation or conveyance by water; means of transporting by water.

Producing miscarriage. -- n.

expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage.

One who procures abortion or miscarriage.

Carriage; attitude; action; movement; as, the head of that portrait has a good air. Fairholt.

To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.

array. Fresh in his new apparel, proud and young. Denham. At public devotion his resigned carriage made religion appear in the natural apparel of simplicity. Tatler.

A metal-hubbed wheel of great strength and elasticity, esp. adapted for artillery carriages and motor cars.

; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds.

A kind of heavily built dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, usually having 14 spokes and 7 felloes; hence, a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc.

The act of driving a chariot or a carriage. [R.] De Quincey.

service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.

A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.