Carry

Definition of Carry

Car´ry

v. t.

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; - often with away or off.

[imp. & p. p. Carried ; p. pr. & vb. n. Carrying.]

When he dieth he shall carry nothing away.

- Ps. xiix. 17.

Devout men carried Stephen to his burial.

- Acts viii, 2.

Another carried the intelligence to Russell.

- Macaulay.

The sound will be carried, at the least, twenty miles.

- Bacon.

To have or hold as a burden, while moving from place to place; to have upon or about one's person; to bear; as, to carry a wound; to carry an unborn child.

If the ideas . . . were carried along with us in our minds.

- Locke.

To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.

Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet.

- Shak.

He carried away all his cattle.

- Gen. xxxi. 18.

Passion and revenge will carry them too far.

- Locke.

To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account to the ledger; to carry a number in adding figures.

To convey by extension or continuance; to extend; as, to carry the chimney through the roof; to carry a road ten miles farther.

To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in a contest; to bring to a successful issue; to win; as, to carry an election.

The carrying of our main point.

- Addison.

To get possession of by force; to capture.

The town would have been carried in the end.

- Bacon.

To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of ; to show or exhibit; to imply.

He thought it carried something of argument in it.

- Watts.

It carries too great an imputation of ignorance.

- Lacke.

To bear (one's self); to behave, to conduct or demean; - with the reflexive pronouns.

He carried himself so insolently in the house, and out of the house, to all persons, that he became odious.

- Clarendon.

10.

To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another; as, a merchant is carrying a large stock; a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance.

Carry arms
(Mil. Drill) a command of the Manual of Arms directing the soldier to hold his piece in the right hand, the barrel resting against the hollow of the shoulder in a nearly perpendicular position. In this position the soldier is said to stand, and the musket to be held, at carry.

To carry all before one
to overcome all obstacles; to have uninterrupted success.

To carry arms
a -	To bear weapons.
b -	To serve as a soldier.

To carry away
a -	(Naut.) to break off; to lose; as, to carry away a fore-topmast.
b -	To take possession of the mind; to charm; to delude; as, to be carried by music, or by temptation.

To carry coals
to bear indignities tamely, a phrase used by early dramatists, perhaps from the mean nature of the occupation.

To carry coals to Newcastle
to take things to a place where they already abound; to lose one's labor. - Halliwell.

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; to advance, or help forward; to continue; 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 -	To support to the end; to sustain, or keep from falling, or being subdued.
c -	To complete; to bring to a successful issue; to succeed. - Hammond.

To carry up
to convey or extend in an upward course or direction; to build.

To carry weight
a -	To be handicapped; to have an extra burden, as when one rides or runs.
b -	To have influence. - Cowper.

v. i.

To act as a bearer; to convey anything; as, to fetch and carry.

To have propulsive power; to propel; as, a gun or mortar carries well.

To hold the head; - said of a horse; as, to carry well i. e., to hold the head high, with arching neck.

(Hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.

To carry on
to behave in a wild, rude, or romping manner.

A tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage.

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