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One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger. The air which is but . . . a carrier of the sounds. Bacon.

on intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier. Blackstone. Kent.

A palanquin carrier; also, a house servant. [India]

A water carrier, as to a household or a regiment. [India]

A form of cash carrier in which a small carrier or car travels upon a kind of track.

on brawler (Law), one addicted to public brawling and quarreling. See Brawler. -- Common carrier (Law), one who undertakes the office of carrying (goods or persons) for hire. Such a carrier is bound to carry in all cases when he has accommodation, and when his fixed price is tendered, and he is liable for all losses a…

An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.

A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool.

A variety of carrier pigeon.

An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.

h-loading firearm, in artillery consisting principally of the breechblock, obturator, and carrier ring.

The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods. Wharton.

A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.

Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons.

in a bearing or box. See Illust. of Axle box. Journal box, or Journal bearing (Mach.) the carrier of a journal; the box in which the journal of a shaft, axle, or pin turns.

-- Letter box, a box for the reception of letters to be mailed or delivered. -- Letter carrier, a person who carries letters; a postman; specif., an officer of the post office who carries letters to the persons to whom they are addressed, and collects letters to be mailed. -- Letter cutter, one who engraves letters…

us Phorus; -- so called because it cements other shells and pebbles upon its own shell; a carrier shell. -- Mason wasp (Zoöl.), any wasp that constructs its nest, or brood cells, of hardened mud. The female fills the cells with insects or spiders, paralyzed by a sting, and thus provides food for its larvæ…

A carrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger; hence, also, a newspaper. Sir J. Stephen. "The monthly Mercuries." Macaulay.

A carrier shell (Phorus).

d of execution practiced at Nantes in France during the Reign of Terror, by Jean Baptiste Carrier.