Forms: 4–5 carie, carye, cary, 5–6 carrie, 5– carry. [a. ONF. carie-r, mod.Pic. carrie-r = Central F. charier, charrier:—late L. carricāre to cart, convey in a car, f. carr-us CAR.
An earlier L. carricare in sense of ‘load,’ became carcare, cargare, whence OF. charchier, chargier: see CHARGE. After this, was formed a new carricāre in sense of ‘transport in a cart,’ which gave OF. carier, charier. Ultimately therefore carry has the same etymology as CARK, CHARGE and CARGO.]
From the radical meaning which includes at once ‘to remove or transport,’ and ‘to support or bear up,’ arise two main divisions, in one of which (I.) ‘removal’ is the chief notion, and ‘support’ may be eliminated, as in 4, 5, and several of the fig. senses; while in the other (II.) ‘support’ is the prominent notion, and ‘motion’ (though usually retained) may entirely disappear. Cf. ‘Do not leave the carpet-bag here; carry it up stairs,’ with ‘Do not drag it along the floor; carry it.’ For the former take is now largely substituted.
I. To transport, convey while bearing up.
* Of literal motion or transference in space.
1. trans. To convey, originally by cart or wagon, hence in any vehicle, by ship, on horseback, etc.
[c. 1320. in Dugdale, Monast. (1661), II. 102. De libero transitu cum plaustris carectis & equis … cariandi decimas suas et alia bona sua.]
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. (Rolls), 13987. He … dide þem carie to þer contres, & byried þem at here cites.
1489. Caxton, Faytes of A., I. xiv. Vpon cartis he shal doo carye wyth hym.
1538. Starkey, England, 65. To the hole destructyon … of al other caryd in theyr schyp.
1611. Bible, Gen. xlii. 19. Carry corne for the famine of your houses. Ibid., 2 Kings ix. 28. His seruants caried him in a charet to Ierusalem.
1719. De Foe, Crusoe (1840), I. ii. 18–9. I carried about 40l. in such toys and trifles.
spec. a. To bear a corpse to burial. b. To carry corn from the harvest field to the stackyard.
1466. J. Paston’s Funeral, in Lett., II. 268. Geven to Martyn Savage … awaytyng upon my master at London be vii. dayes before that he was caryed, iis. xd.
[1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 23. After that he … repeth it, byndeth it, shocketh it, and at the last caryeth it home to his barne.]
1801. Bp. of Lincoln, in G. Rose, Diaries (1860), I. 427. Our wheat is all carried.
1851. H. Mayo, Pop. Superst. (ed. 2), 170. It is a field of wheat, but it has been cut and carried.
c. absol. Said e. g. of a carrier.
c. 1631. Milton, On Univ. Carrier, ii. 18. If I mayn’t carry, sure I’ll ne’er be fetched.
Mod. The common carrier who carries between London and Totteridge.
2. To bear from one place to another by bodily effort; to go bearing up or supporting. So to fetch and carry. To carry Coals (fig.); see COAL.
c. 1340–70. Alex. & Dind., 725. Ȝe … carien by costum corn to hure temple.
c. 1384. Chaucer, H. Fame, 1280. Y saugh him carien a wyndmelle. Ibid. (c. 1386), Prol., 130. Wel coude she carie a morsel.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., I. vi. 30. His apostlis … wolden aftirward carie fischis in paniers.
c. 1511. 1st Eng. Bk. Amer. (Arb.), Introd. 32/2. He [gryffon] wyll well cary in his neste an oxe.
1610. Shaks., Temp., II. i. 90. Hee will carry this Island home in his pocket. Ibid., III. i. 25. Ile beare your Logges … Ile carry it to the pile.
1611. Bible, 1 Kings xxi. 10. Carie him out, and stone him that he may die. Ibid., Isa. xl. 11. He shall gather the lambes with his arme, and carie them in his bosome.
1711. Steele, Spect., No. 41, ¶ 6. Honeycomb … carried off his Handkerchief full of Brushes.
1791. ‘G. Gambado,’ Ann. Horsem., iv. (1809), 83. A horse … which does not carry me at all in the same way he did the man I bought him of.
1816. Scott, Guy M., xxiii. ‘Dumple could carry six folk, if his back was lang eneugh.’
1884. Miss Braddon, Ishmael, I. iv. 74–5. He [the lad] carried the youngest on his shoulder across the sands.
b. Falconry. To bear a hawk upon the fist.
1826. Sir J. S. Sebright, Observ. Hawking (1828), 35. The passage-hawk, when first taken, must be carried all day upon the fist, and fed at night by candle-light.
1881. E. B. Michell, Falconry in Min., in Macm. Mag., Nov., 39. He [the young hawk] is ‘carried’ for some hours amongst men, children, dogs, and horses, so as to become accustomed to their presence.
c. absol. † To carry double: said of a horse with saddle and pillion. See also quot. 1677.
1577. Holinshed, Chron., III. 813/1. They were put to carie and draw.
1591. Shaks., Two Gent., III. i. 274. Shee can fetch and carry: why a horse can doe no more; nay a horse cannot fetch, but onely carry.
1677. N. Cox, Gentl. Recreat., Hunting (1706), 17. When a Hare runs on rotten Ground, or in a Frost sometimes, and then it sticks to her Feet, we say, she Carryeth.
1678. Butler, Hud., III. I. 569. A Beast … Which carries double.
c. 1720. Prior, Alma, III. To go and come, to fetch and carry.
1862. Huxley, Lect. Working Men, 105, note. The ‘Carrier’ [pigeon], I learn from Mr. Tegetmeier, does not carry.
3. Also said of a cart, wagon, railway train, ship, bicycle, or other vehicle; so running water carries bodies floating on it, or suspended in it, wind carries leaves, balloons, slates, etc.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XIX. 326. A carte hyȝte cristendome to carie Pieres sheues.
1590. Shaks., Com. Err., I. i. 88. And floating straight, obedient to the streame, Was carried towards Corinth.
1652. Evelyn, Diary, 22 March. Flinging it into a rapid streame, it … carried away the sand, &c.
1803. Med. Jrnl., X. 363. Blood carries with it the basis of nutrition.
Mod. This tricycle has carried me five thousand miles.
4. To bear or take (a letter, message, report, news, and the like). (Without reference to weight).
c. 1340–70. Alex. & Dind., 184. And bad him in haste To þe king … carien his sonde.
1591. Shaks., Two Gent., I. i. 112. Nay Sir, lesse then a pound shall serue me for carrying your Letter.
1641. Sir E. Nicholas, in N. Papers (Camd.), I. 53. He being dessigned to carry that newes.
1670. Milton, P. L., V. 870. These tidings carrie to th’ anointed King.
1820. Hoyle’s Games Impr., 467. On such complaint being carried to any one of the stewards, that steward is to summon a general Jockey Club meeting as soon as convenient.
1848. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. v. 600. The news of this movement had been carried to the Earl of Pembroke.
5. To conduct, escort, lead, ‘take’ (a person) with one, without reference to the mode of transit; to ‘take’ (a horse, a ship) to a place, a given distance, etc. Now arch. and dial.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, XIII. i. 57. The Troianis … by power of hie Jove ar hiddir cary.
1584. Powel, Lloyd’s Cambria, 79. Carieng with them the Archbishop.
1611. Bible, 2 Kings ix. 2. Look out there Jehu … and carie him to an inner chamber.
1659–60. Pepys, Diary, 27 Feb. My landlord carried us through a very old hospital.
1725. De Foe, Voy. round World (1840), 2. He that can carry a ship to Lisbon, may with the same case carry it round the world.
1750. Beawes, Lex Mercat. (1752), 795. The Japonese Pilots and Sailors come aboard and carry the Vessel into Port.
1758. Johnson, Idler, No. 6, ¶ 9. The lady carried her horse a thousand miles in a thousand hours.
1771. Franklin, Autobiog., Wks. 1840, I. 7. My father carried his wife with three children to New England.
1818. E. Burt’s Lett. N. Scotl., I. 66, note. The Scots … talk of … getting on the back of a cart-horse, and carrying him to grass.
1822. J. Flint, Lett. fr. Amer., 264. (Americanisms) Carry the horse to water.
1861. E. B. Ramsay, Remin., Ser. II. iv. 51. ‘Carry any ladies that call up stairs.’
1886. R. F. Burton, Arab. Nts. (abridged ed.), I. 286. As soon as it was dusk, the slave-girl came to him and carried him to the house.
b. esp. To take by force, as a prisoner or captive.
1584. Powel, Lloyd’s Cambria, 93. Caried him towards the ships.
1588. Pittington Vestry Bk. (Surtees), 27. Nicolas Yonger was carried to Littleburne about the rogge monie.
1597. Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., V. v. 97. Go carry Sir Iohn Falstaffe to the Fleete.
1665. Pepys, Diary, 10 Aug. My she-cosen Porter … to tell me that her husband was carried to the Tower.
1799. S. Freeman, Town Off., 99. Apprehend and carry him before a justice.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 423. A body of constables … carried off the actors to prison.
c. in Backgammon.
1820. Hoyle’s Games Impr., 294. Directions how to carry your men home. Ibid., 296. Six and five, a man to be carried from your adversary’s ace-point, as far as he can go, for a gammon, or hit.
6. To carry all before one: (i.e.) like a body moving with irresistible force and carrying away or propelling everything in its course.
1672. R. Wild, Poet. Licent., 35. Some men there be that carry all before ’em.
1848. L. Hunt, Jar of Honey, vii. 81. That, indeed, carries everything, even truth itself, before it.
1878. Bosw. Smith, Carthage, viii. 169. The Irreconcilables carried everything their own way.
b. To shoot down, ‘bring to the ground.’
1653. H. Cogan, trans. Pinto’s Trav., xlix. § 1. 190. Having discovered this game [wild boars], we got as near to them as we could, and discharging amongst them, we carried two of them to the ground.
7. To transfer (a number, cipher or remainder) to the next column or unit’s place before or after, in the elementary operations of arithmetic.
1798. Hutton, Course Math. (1806), I. 23. To carry as many to the next figure as were borrowed before. Ibid. (1827), I. 161. The 1 to carry from the decimals is set down.
1825. in W. Cobbett, Rur. Rides (1885), II. 36. You are to put down the 4 and carry 2.
b. To transfer (entries) from one account book to another.
1745. De Foe’s Engl. Tradesm. (1841), II. 41. This carrying things from the journal … to the ledger … is called posting.
8. A channel, drain, pipe, etc., is said to carry water or other liquid or fluid, sound, etc.
1601. Holland, Pliny, VI. xxvii. When it begins once to carry a more forcible streame it is called Tigris.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 389. The voice of a man carryed in a trunk, reed or hollow thing.
1749. Fielding, Tom Jones, I. iv. A constant cascade not carried down a regular flight of steps.
1750. Beawes, Lex Mercat. (1752), 733. The Canal … serves to carry the Water … to this City.
1878. Holbrook, Hyg. Brain, 55. The nerve filaments carry the will.
1886. Law Times, LXXXI. 59/2. A 9-inch sewer, which carried the drainage from the houses into the main brick sewer.
9. A bow, a gun, or the like is said to carry an arrow, a ball, or other missile to a specified distance or in a specified way. Usually absol.; and transf. or fig.
1636. Healey, Theophrast., 19. Hee, that saluteth a man as farre off as his eye can carry levell.
1643. Sir T. Browne, Relig. Med., ii. § 3. Scholars are men of Peace, but … their pens carry farther, and give a lowder report than thunder.
1644. Nye, Gunnery (1670), 4. After you have made one shot, and find the Peece carry just over the Mark.
1869. Phillips, Vesuvius, viii. 226. The stones went bout as high as a cross-bow can carry.
1870. Lowell, Study Wind., 377. A fine, telling phrase that will carry true.
10. The wind is said to carry a ship along, which it drives or impels over the sea.
1526. Tindale, Acts xxvii. 17. We let doune a vessell and soo were caryed.
1565–78. Cooper, Thesaurus, s.v. Nauis, The shippe fleeteth beyng caryed with winde and sale.
1590. Shaks., Com. Err., I. i. 110. Her part … Was carried with more speed before the winde.
1722. Wollaston, Relig. Nat., v. 99. The wind, which carries one into the port, drives another back to sea.
1737. Pope, Horace’s Epist., I. vi. 70. Where winds can carry, or where waves can roll.
11. To cause to go or come.
a. The impelling moral cause or motive is said to carry one to a place.
1876. Green, Short Hist., v. § 1 (1882), 213. A mission carried him [Chaucer] in early life to Italy.
b. A march, journey, a space traversed, is said to carry one to a point.
1871. Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1876), IV. xviii. 240. The great march which carried Harold from London to Stamford bridge.
12. Provision, or money, that lasts out till one reaches a distant point of space or time, is said to carry one to that point.
1703. Burchett, Naval Trans. IV. xxi. (1720), 553. They intended to take in Provisions, being so much streighten’d that they had not enough to carry them to the Havana.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 695. A scanty stock of silver, which … was to carry the nation through the summer.
13. fig. To continue to have with or beside one, as one moves on; to ‘take with’ one.
1777. W. Dalrymple, Trav. Sp. & Port., xxxv. A hollow way, which we carried with us to Aranjuez. Ibid., lxxxiii. We carried a mountainous country along with us, on the left hand.
1840. Marryat, Poor Jack, xlvii. We made sail, carrying with us three-fourths of the flood.
1857. Merc. Mar. Mag. (1858), V. 9. I carried a steady Trade [wind], all sail set.
14. To extend or continue (a line, a piece of work) in the same direction to a specified distance, or in a given direction.
1393. Gower, Conf., II. 112. Ne yet the mone, that she carie Her cours alonge upon the heven.
1704. Worlidge, Dict. Rust. et Urb., s.v. Lapis Calam., They should carry Air-shafts with them, as in Lead-Mines.
1715. Desaguliers, Fires Impr., 32. Such a Pipe may be carried into a Bed and warm it.
1772. Hist. Rochester, 28. Gundulph did not carry this tower to the height it now is.
1871. Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1876), IV. xviii. 154. The defences were not carried down to the water.
1878. Bosw. Smith, Carthage, 424. The man who … could carry a wall from sea to sea.
b. fig. of things immaterial: as in to carry to excess, too far, etc.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 119, ¶ 5. This kind of Good-manners was perhaps carried to an Excess.
1728. T. Sheridan, Persius, v. (1739), 67. The highest, and most generous Notions of Friendship. How high does Cicero carry it in his first Book of Laws.
1878. Morley, Crit. Misc., Ser. I. Carlyle, 194. He carries the process a step further.
** With notion of taking away by force.
15. To take as the result of effort, to win (as a prize), succeed in obtaining: also to carry off. (F. emporter.) Cf. 17.
1607. Shaks., Cor., II. i. 254. He would misse it [the consulship], rather then carry it But by the suite of the Gentry to him.
1611. Cotgr., Enchere … any Portsale, Outrope … wherein he that bids most for a thing is to carrie it.
1625. Bacon, Friendsh., Ess. (Arb.), 169. He had carried the Consulship, for a Frend of his.
1642. W. Browne, Polex., I. 69. He alwaies fights alone, and alone carries the victory.
a. 1716. South, 12 Serm. (1717), VI. 379. Consider … what the Issue may be, if the Tempter should carry thy Choice.
1734. trans. Rollin’s Anc. Hist. (1827), V. XIV. 312. He had carried the prize at the Olympic games.
1862. Merivale, Rom. Emp. (1871), V. xlii. 169. He strove to carry with his own hand the victory.
b. Hence To carry it: to gain the advantage, win the contest, ‘win the day,’ ‘bear the palm.’
1580. North, Plutarch, 621. Cæsar carried it by much.
1598. Shaks., Merry W., III. ii. 70. He will carry’t, he will carry’t! ’tis in his buttons; he will carry’t! Ibid. (1601), All’s Well, IV. i. 30. It must bee a very plausiue inuention that carries it.
1647. W. Browne, Polex., II. 98. Love carried it from Jealousie.
1690. Locke, Hum. Und., IV. xviii. § 8. Revelation … must carry it against the probable Conjectures of Reason.
1779. Forrest, Voy. N. Guinea, 181. The name Selangan carries it generally over the other [name].
1870. Goulburn, Cathedral Syst., i. 7. Where the two come into collision, the second must carry it over the first.
c. So To carry the day.
a. 1685. N. Lockyer, in Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. xciv. 15. He returns, and then his people carry the day.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 429. The French King had … said that the last piece of gold would carry the day.
1879. McCarthy, Own Times, II. xix. 59. The phrase had carried the day.
16. To take away or win from the enemy by military assault (a town, position, ship, etc.).
1601. Shaks., All’s Well, III. vii. 19. The Count … Layes downe his wanton Siedge before her beautie, Resolue to carrie her.
1622. Bacon, Hen. VII., 110. The Towne would haue beene carried in the end.
1677. Govt. Venice, 101. Dying of pure indignation that he could not carry the Town.
1703. Burchett, Naval Trans. III. xix. (1720), 384. Lawson … pressed so hard upon De Ruyter, that he had like to have carried him.
1797. Sir J. Jervis, in A. Duncan, Nelson (1806), 46. Boarded and carried two of the enemy’s gun-boats.
1876. Bancroft, Hist. U.S., V. x. 444. Horne directed eight regiments … to carry this position.
b. fig. and transf. (Often with mixture of senses.)
1622. Sparrow, Bk. Com. Prayer, Pref. To court the affections and … by their help, to carry the understanding.
1868. Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1876), II. ix. 340. They were words which at once carried the whole assembly with them.
1884. Reade, Perilous Secr., xiii. He … always kept his temper and carried everybody, especially the chaplain and the turnkeys.
17. To gain victory for, to be victorious or successful against opposition with (a matter or measure for which one contends). Hence such phrases as to carry one’s candidate; to carry (= win) an election, etc.
a. 1619. Fotherby, Atheom., I. i. § 5. 7. Arguments … sufficient to carry the matter.
a. 1715. Burnet, Own Time, II. 9. If the King would have acted with the spirit that he sometimes puts on, they might have carried their business.
1723. Wodrow, Corr. (1843), III. 9. Several of the elders … have carried a call for Mr. John Hepburn.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., II. 125. The government had been unable to carry its measures.
1870. Stanhope, Hist. Eng., II. xiii. 178. They carried their candidates in the centres of popular election.
b. frequent in phrase To carry one’s point; cf. 16.
1699. Bentley, Phal., 429. If I can carry this Single Point.
1759. Franklin, Ess., Wks. 1840, III. 416. The surest way of carrying his point.
1885. Mrs. Macquoid, Louisa, III. ii. 21. She had carried her point with her husband.
18. esp. To carry a motion in a meeting, a bill in a legislative assembly, etc.: to get it passed or adopted by the whole or a majority of the votes.
1666. Marvell, Corr., lix. Wks. 1872–5, II. 198. Upon division of the House … ’twas caryed for the provisos being committed.
1682. N. O., Boileau’s Lutrin, IV. 147. Let faithful tellers take the Poll, and note The Ay’s and Noe’s; And if we carry’t, then Sir! Down goes the Innovation, once agen Sir!
1837. Thirlwall, Greece, IV. xxxx. 135. This motion was carried, probably by a very small majority.
1863. H. Cox, Instit., I. viii. 100. The second Reform Bill was carried by a large majority.
Mod. The remaining clauses were carried unanimously.
*** Of figurative transference.
19. In a variety of figurative uses taken from 1 or 2, the subject, or object, or both, being things immaterial, or the motion not in space, but from or into a sphere of thought or action = take, conduct, transport, transfer, cause to go.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 29 b. But at his ende. caryenge it out of this worlde with hym, he shall neuer dye.
1713. Berkeley, Wks., III. 189. If we carry our thoughts from the corporeal to the moral world.
1754. Erskine, Princ. Sc. Law (1809), 257. Heritable rights may be carried from the debtor to the creditor either by [etc.].
1818. Cruise, Digest, III. 45. It does not appear that this case was ever carried to the House of Lords.
1857. Buckle, Civiliz., I. ix. 589. This [right of private judgment] it was which, carried into politics, overturned the government; and, carried into religion, upset the church.
1885. Act 48 & 49 Vict., l. § 25. All sums received … shall be carried to the consolidated loans fund.
1662. Bk. Com. Prayer, Collect 4th Sund. after Epiph., Such strength and protection as shall … carry us through all temptations.
a. 1778. Chatham, Lett. Nephew, i. 3. I will recommend to Mr. Leech to carry you quite through Virgil’s Æneid.
1781. Burke, Corr. (1844), II. 438. The grand principles of justice and policy are not dear enough to us to carry us through the difficulties which we should encounter.
1873. Black, Pr. Thule, xviii. 280. The perfect independence of that gentle young lady … might carry her too far.
20. To impel or lead away as passion does, or by influencing the mind or feelings; to incline, move, urge, sway, influence. Now usually carry away; cf. 46 b.
1577. St. Aug. Manuell (Longmans), 62. The soule … is caried with desirousnes, drawen with longyng.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., IV. iv. 34. Caried with fervent zeale.
1601. F. Godwin, Bps. of Eng., 335. Subiect to flatterers, who carried him to their pleasure.
1608. Golding, Epit. Frossard’s Chron., III. 152. The king … was altogether carryed by this man, in such sorte as he both neglected and hated his vnckles in respect of him.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., II. i. VI. i. (1651), 291. We should moderate our selves, but we are furiously carryed.
a. 1715. Burnet, Own Time, I. 556. That idleness to which youth is naturally carried.
a. 1844. Campbell, ‘How delicious is the winning,’ iii. Just as fate or fancy carries.
21. To be carried: to be rapt, to be moved from sobermindedness, to have the head turned. Obs. exc. Sc.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., I. ix. § 1. They are not caried with such giddinesse [tantâ vertigine raptari].
1827. Scott, Surg. Dau., iii. If their heads were not carried with the notice which the foolish people … took of them.
**** To conduct (a business).
22. To conduct, manage (a business or affair), arch. Now usually to carry on.
1590. Shaks., Mids. N., III. ii. 240. This sport, well carried, shall be chronicled. Ibid. (1599), Much Ado, IV. i. 212. This wel carried, shall … Change slander to remorse.
1607–12. Bacon, Ess., Seditions, &c. (Arb.), 395. When Discordes, and quarrells … are carryed openly. Ibid. (1612), Vain-glory, ibid. 462. If they haue neuer so little Hand in it, they thinke it is they that carry it.
a. 1715. Burnet, Own Time, II. 193. The elections were carried with great heat.
1845. Browning, Soul’s Trag. (1868), 23. So will you carry matters, that the rest of the world must at length unite and put down [etc.].
† b. Hence To carry it: to conduct matters, behave, act. Obs.
1601. Shaks., Twel. N., III. iv. 150. We may carry it thus for our pleasure.
1625–6. Shirley, Maid’s Rev., III. i. She will carry it so, that Velasco shall be suspected.
1671. Flavel, Fount. Life, iv. 9. The Lord seemed to carry it as one at a distance from his Son.
1742. Richardson, Pamela, III. 306. Sir Jacob carried it mighty stiff and formal.
c. with extension To carry into effect, execution, practice, etc. (Cf. next.)
1731–59. Miller, Gard. Dict., Pref. Carrying this into practice.
1769. Goldsm., Hist. Rome (1786), I. 483. [They] were appointed to carry it into execution.
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth, iv. He would find it difficult to carry it into execution.
1871. Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1876), IV. xviii. 123. He did not tarry long in carrying his purpose into effect.
***** intr. or absolute uses implying motion.
† 23. To drive, ride, move with energy or speed.
1362. Langl., P. Pl., A. Prol. 28. Coueyte not in cuntre to carien [some B. MSS. have kairen] aboute. Ibid., IV. 22. Thanne Conscience on his capul carieth forth faste. Ibid. (1399), Rich. Redeless, III. 301. Whanne realles remeveth and ridith thoru tounes, And carieth ouer contre.
c. 1450. Henryson, Mor. Fabl., 58. I tuke my club and homeward could I carie, So ferlying as I had seene ane Fary.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VIII. iv. 100. In haist Hercules com at hand Wyth furius mynd careing out the land. Ibid., XII. xi. 136. Lat ws follow that way, and thiddir cary.
24. Falconry. To fly away with the game or quarry. [so Fr. charrier.]
1615. Latham, Falconry (1633), 14. Affirming that Doves will make Haggards carry: which is not so, for this is idlenesse and want of skill in their keepers, that causes them to Carry.
1677. N. Cox, Gentl. Recreat. (1706), II. 49. Should she be guilty of Carrying, yet by this means she will be reclaimed, and forget that Error.
1826. Sir J. S. Sebright, Observ. Hawking (1828), 8. Less disposed to carry, i. e. to fly away with the game; a fault to which all hawks are more or less inclined.
II. To support, sustain.
* With more reference to motion.
25. To hold, hold up, sustain, while moving on or marching; to bear. To carry weight (in Horse-racing): i.e., such additional weight as equalises the competitors.
1563. Foxe, A. & M. (1583), 73. The myracles of the foresayde Helenus … how he caried burning coales in his lap.
1782. Cowper, John Gilpin, 115. ‘He carries weight!’ ‘He rides a race!’
1818. Scott, Rob Roy, iii. ‘You ride four stone lighter than I.’ ‘Very well; but I am content to carry weight.’
1852. Tennyson, Ode Wellington, 6. Warriors carry the warrior’s pall.
26. To bear, wear, hold up, or sustain, as one moves about; habitually to bear about with one (e.g., any ornament, ensign, personal adjunct; also a name or other distinction).
c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., III. 266. Carie a swerd in a scaberge.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XXXVII. vii. Rubies of India … which carry the name also of Carchedonij.
1631. Weever, Anc. Fun. Mon., 149. Deacons, for a difference from the Priests, carried a round wreath of white cloth.
1631. Gouge, God’s Arrows, V. § 11. 421. Men are more fit … to carrie a bush-bill rather then a battell-axe.
1703. Burchett, Naval Trans., III. xix. (1720), 389. The victorious Fleet … under the Command of the Earl of Sandwich, who carried the Standard.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), III. 46. We do not know whether they are to carry arms.
Mod. He carries a snuff-box.
b. To bear within one, contain.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas., xvi. vii. My sadde body my hevy hert did cary.
1748. Smollett, Rod. Rand., lxvii. A sailor having drunk more new rum than he could carry.
1880. Daily Tel., 3 Dec., 5/1. Valuable carbonates of lead, which carry silver.
c. To be pregnant with.
1776. Johnson, in Boswell (1831), III. 458. Mrs. Thrale is big, and fancies that she carries a boy.
1788. J. Powell, Devises (1827), II. 361. The mother supposed to be now carrying a third child.
27. To bear about (mentally); to have or keep in the mind.
1583. Babington, Commandm. (1590), 315. O let vs carrie some greater care to obserue his will.
1602. Carew, Cornwall, 107/1. I carried once a purpose, to build a little woodden banqueting house.
1709. Berkeley, Ess. Vision, § 91. We ought to carry that distinction in our thoughts.
1878. Morley, Crit. Misc., Ser. I. Carlyle, 195. To carry ever with us the unmarked, yet living tradition of the voiceless.
28. To bear as a character, mark, attribute or property; to exhibit, display: a. to the senses.
1581. Act 23 Eliz., ix. § 2. Whiche Coulers, althoughe they carrye a Shew of a good, true and perfitte Couler.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., I. i. 46. That Lady trew, Whose semblance she did carrie under feigned hew.
1633. Bp. Hall, Hard Texts, Isa xi. 15. That baye … carries the forme of a tongue.
1671. Milton, Samson, 1073. His habit carries peace, his brow defiance.
1704. Worlidge, Dict. Rust. et Urb., s.v. Foal, The same Shape he carries at a Month, he will carry at six Years old.
1791. Burke, App. Whigs, Wks. VI. 30. Any writer who has carried marks of a deranged understanding.
1873. Holland, A. Bonnic., xv. 236. Both carried grave faces.
b. to the mind.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, III. xxiii. (Arb.), 279. Rude and vnciuill speaches carry a marueilous great indecencie.
1597. Morley, Introd. Mus., 76. Make your descant carrie some forme of relation to the plaine song. Ibid., 114. These waies of double descant carie some difficultie.
1677. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., I. ii. 45. In some Vegetables we see something that carries a kind of analogy to Sense.
1693. Mem. Ct. Teckely, Ep. Ded. p. vi. At this Day they carry the highest Value.
1845. Stephen, Laws Eng., II. 576. The liability … may at first sight carry the air of hardship.
† c. To bear (affection, respect, etc.) to, towards.
1598. Barret, Theor. Warres, II. i. 19. He ought to carie great respect vnto the Sergeant Maior.
1605. Verstegan, Dec. Intell., v. (1628), 147. The naturall affection they carried vnto the Country-men.
1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 112, ¶ 2. To carry an universal Benevolence towards every Thing that has Life.
a. 1718. Penn, Wks. (1726), I. 538. The Over-fondness some carry to their opinion.
d. So, To carry weight, authority, and the like. In to carry conviction there is a mixture of notions.
1613. Shaks., Hen. VIII., III. ii. 233. Words cannot carrie Authority so weighty.
1662. Stillingfl., Orig. Sacr., II. vii. § 2. 207. Such as do not carry an immutable obligation along with them.
1691. T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent., 13. The Navy Officers, with whom it carries so much weight.
1729. Butler, Serm., iii. Wks. 1874, II. 33. Conscience … carries its own authority with it.
1870. E. Peacock, Ralf Skirl., III. 192. The voice almost carried conviction.
29. To bear or convey (a meaning, sense, etc.).
1651. Hobbes, Leviath., III. xxxiv. 207. The sense they [words] carry in the Scripture.
1881. Tylor, Anthrop., vi. 162. The root, which carries the sense … is followed by suffixes strung on to modify it.
30. To bear implicitly or as a consequence; to involve.
1662. Stillingfl., Orig. Sacr., II. vi. § 5. 185. Those predictions which have seemed to carry the greatest improbabilities with them.
1717. Col. Rec. Penn., III. 39. Understood to Carry their assent along with it.
1835. I. Taylor, Spir. Despot., iv. 168. The determination of them [questions] carries, substantially, the question of ecclesiastical polity.
1877. E. R. Conder, Bas. Faith, ii. 66. To pronounce any human being sinless is to pass a positive judgment carrying immense consequences.
31. A loan, etc., is said to carry interest, a bill to carry grace.
1693. W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen., 313. Corn carries a price, Annona cara est.
1711. Lond. Gaz., No. 4870/4. Notes carrying 6 per Cent. Interest.
1767. Blackstone, Comm., II. xxx. A contract, which carries interest.
1767. A. Young, Farmer’s Lett. People, 79. These little farms carry twenty shillings—a guinea—and sometimes more, an acre.
1866. Crump, Banking, v. 104. Bills or notes on demand carry no grace.
** With chief reference to manner.
32. To hold (the body, head, etc.) up in a certain way.
1583. Babington, Commandm. (1590), 352. Till hee and his counsell have brought his maintainers to carie but a small port.
1619. R. West, Bk. Demean., in Babees Bk. (1868), 295. To carry up the body faire, is decent.
1723. S. Morland, Spec. Lat. Dict., 12. His coming to an Estate makes him carry his Head so high.
1724. Lond. Gaz., No. 6258/3. Stolen … a Mare … does not carry her Tail well.
b. said of a ship.
1796. in Nicolas, Disp. Nelson (1846), VII. Introd. 223*. The Captain gets on … and carries a good helm.
1836. Marryat, Pirate, iii. ‘How does she carry her helm, Matthew?’ inquired Oswald, walking aft. ‘Spoke a-weather.’
c. absol.
1829. Lond. Encycl., V. 194. A horse is said to carry well, when his neck is arched, and he holds his head high.
33. refl. To comport, demean, behave oneself. Also of conduct.
1593. Bilson, Govt. Christ’s Ch., 253. To carrie himselfe for a Presbyter.
1653. H. Cogan, trans. Pinto’s Trav., xv. § 3. 49. Let us carry our selves in such sort, as they may not perceive we fear them as Enemies.
1719. Col. Rec. Penn., III. 86. Carrying themselves very rudely.
1847. L. Hunt, Men, Women, & B., I. iii. 43. The way in which sheep carry themselves on abrupt and saltatory occasions.
1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., V. xxxvi. 331. She carried herself with a wonderful air.
b. of conduct or behavior to or towards others. arch. or Obs.
1594. T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., II. Seneca. How to cary our selues towardes our neighbours.
1668. Pepys, Diary, 4 Nov. The Duke of York do … carry himself wonderfull submissive to the King.
1714. Ellwood, Autobiog., 69. My Sisters … carried themselves very kindly to me.
† c. intr. (for refl.) To behave. Obs.
1634–46. Row, Hist. Kirk (1842), 95. He craved the advise of the Assemblie how to carie in the mater.
1673. O. Walker, Education, 285. It is an action of very great Prudence to carry even between adulation and sowreness.
1726. Wodrow, Corr. (1843), III. 269. I hope the youth will carry so as he may not be ashamed of the God of his fathers.
† 34. To carry a hand (over, upon, to): to treat in a specified way; so to carry an eye on: to watch, oversee. Obs.
1596. J. Norden, Progr. Pietie (1847), 22. We must carry a very short hand over our affections.
1622. Massinger, etc. Old Law, II. ii. I’ll carry an even hand to all the world.
1633. T. Stafford, Pac. Hib., xxi. (1821), 215. To carrie a strict hand upon the Commissaries.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., I. viii. 30. If any man … shall carry a wary eye on … many other.
1723. S. Morland, Spec. Lat. Dict., 12. To Carry a severe Hand over any one.
† 35. To wield; to carry a (great) stroke, to wield or have great influence. Obs.
1598. Barret, Theor. Warres, II. i. 22. The Lieutenant … in the absence of his Captaine, carieth his roome, charge and command.
1633. Bp. Hall, Hard Texts, Dan. xi. 4. To carry that sway and greatnesse wch that great monarch bore before them.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett. (1678), 205. My Lord Wentworth … carries a mighty stroke at Court.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., VI. x. Though Sulphur seem to carry the master stroak.
1651. Culpepper, Astrol. Judgem. Dis. (1658), 6. The time of the year carries a great stroke in this businesse.
36. Mil. To hold a weapon in the position for saluting.
1796. Instr. & Reg. Cavalry (1803), 314. Carry swords! Eyes—right! Ibid. (1833), I. 60. The men remain at ‘Carry Swords,’ till ordered to ‘Slope.’
1844. Regul. & Ord. Army, 265. Reliefs are to carry their Arms when passing Officers who are dressed in their Uniforms.
1859. F. A. Griffiths, Artil. Man. (1862), 152. The officers recover and carry swords.
*** With chief reference to sustaining.
37. To carry sail: said of a ship, or of those who work it. [F. charrier de la voile.]
1631. Massinger, Emperor of E., IV. iii. You carry too much sail for your small bark.
1703. Burchett, Naval Trans., V. xiii. (1720), 641. The Adventure … stood away with all the Sail she could carry.
1836. Marryat, Midsh. Easy, xxvi. 103. ‘I fear, sir, we cannot carry the mainsail much longer.’
1840. R. H. Dana, Bef. Mast, xxxi. 119. No one could say that he was slow to carry sail.
38. To support, sustain the weight of, bear.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 530. Carry Camomile, or Wilde Thyme … upon sticks, as you do Hops upon Poles.
1837. Brewster, Optics, x. 93. An armed natural loadstone, which could carry 11/2 Roman pounds.
1851. Ruskin, Stones Ven. (1874), I. i. 30. Main arches … carried by … pillars.
1875. Buckland, Log-Bk., 59. The thick skin which carries the hair.
b. said of plants.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 425. They will put forth many, and so carry more Shoots vpon a Stemme.
1712. trans. Pomet’s Hist. Drugs, I. 2. This Plant … carries its Seed in little Bunches or Clusters on its Top.
1828. Steuart, Planter’s G., 368. The Trees of the present year … all carried a healthy leaf.
† 39. To bear, endure, ‘take’ (anything grievous).
1583. Babington, Commandm. (1590), 431. He is a slaue to the thing that he gapeth for, and to make vp his mouth he will cary any thing.
1605. Shaks., Lear, III. ii. 48. Mans Nature cannot carry Thaffliction nor the feare.
1679–1715. Burnet, Hist. Ref., 351. Queen Anne did not carry her death so decently.
40. To bear as a crop; to sustain, support (cattle).
1799. J. Robertson, Agric. Perth, 166. The foot of every brook … carries amazing crops of lint.
1846. Grote, Greece (1862), II. xvi. 395. The cold central plain did not carry the olive.
1884. Times (weekly ed.), 12 Sept., 7/4. A grazing farm … which is said to carry 600 head of cattle.
41. To support (an inference, analogous case, etc.); to give validity to.
1835. I. Taylor, Spir. Despot., vii. 298. The end being of infinite moment, carries all means, and makes all lawful.
1885. G. Denman, in Law Times’ Rep., LIII. 785/1. It is impossible to say that any one case is so in point as to carry this case.
42. Cards. To retain the cards of one suit in one’s hand, while those of another are thrown out.
1744. Hoyle, Piquet, ii. 9. Which of these suits are you to carry?
1820. Hoyle’s Games Impr., 121. (Piquet), Suppose elder-hand, that you have the ace, queen, seven, eight and ten of clubs, also the ace, knave, seven, eight and ten of diamonds, carry the ace, knave, [etc.].
† 43. To have (specified dimensions). Obs. [So F. porter, ‘avoir telle dimension.’]
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 574. Another Obeliske, which carried in length a hundred foot wanting one.
1631. Weever, Anc. Fun. Mon., 382. The height of the West arched roofe … carrieth an hundred and two foot.
1670. Lassels, Voy. Italy (1695), II. 60. The walls shew you what compass it carried.
III. Combined with adverbs.
See also the preceding senses and the adverbs for non-specialized combinations.
44. Carry about.
a. See senses 1–3, and ABOUT.
Mod. It is too valuable to carry about with you.
b. trans. To move or drive hither and thither.
1539. Bible (Great), Ephes. iv. 14. Caryed aboute with euery wynde of doctrine. Ibid. (1611), Hebr. xiii. 9. Be not caried about with diuers and strange doctrines.
† c. To cause to revolve, set in motion. Obs.
1677. Moxon, Mech. Exerc. (1703), 180. Wheels turn’d with Wind, Water, or Horses, to carry the Work about.
45. Carry along. See senses of CARRY and ALONG.
1833. Chamb. Jrnl., No. 70. 141. A stone bridge carrying along the road from Peebles to Selkirk.
46. Carry away.
a. trans. = carry off, a.
[c. 1600. Shaks., Sonn., lxxiv. When that fell arrest Without all bail shall carry me away.]
1603. Florio, Montaigne (1632), 432. A popular sickenesse … carried away an infinite number of persons.
b. To move forcibly from the firm footing of reason and judgment.
1570. Huloet, This thing rauished or caried me awaye, whether I would or no.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, Pref. 1. Their reason is caried awaie and ouermaistered by the course of the world.
1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 151, ¶ 2. Woman-kind … are carried away with every Thing that is showy.
1879. Froude, Cæsar, xvii. 275. Carried away by the general enthusiasm for liberty.
c. To break off and remove by force. Also, to lose by breakage; and intr. Chiefly Naut.
1537. Wriothesley, Chron. (1875), I. 61. Carriinge a parte of the house awaye with him.
1703. Burchett, Naval Trans. V. xxii. (1720), 723. The best Bouer Ancher carried away with a Shot.
c. 1750. Narrative Byron’s Voy., 4 (L.). We carried away our mizen-mast.
1840. R. H. Dana, Bef. Mast, xv. 41. Her jib-boom ran between our … masts, carrying away some of our rigging.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., iii. (1854), 27. We ran into an iceberg the night after, and carried away our jib-boom and martingale.
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., s.v., That ship has carried away her fore top-rast.
1881. Daily News, 9 June, 5/4. Something may carry away on board the leading boat.
† d. To win, gain for oneself, or as one would have it. Obs.
1581. Nowell & Day, in Confer., I. (1584), C iiij. His wordes … were [not] of sufficient credite to carry away such a matter.
1633. Bp. Hall, Hard Texts, Hebr. ii. 2. Every transgression … carryed away a terrible judgement from the just hand of God.
1677. Earl Orrery, Art of War, 157. Whoever keeps in Reserve a Body of Men … rarely misses to carry away the victory.
† e. To carry it away: to have the advantage, carry the day. Obs.
1598. Grenewey, Tacitus’ Ann., XIII. vi. (1622), 187. This opinion carried it away.
1602. Shaks., Ham., II. ii. 377. Do the Boyes carry it away?
1633. Bp. Hall, Hard Texts, Matt. xxvi. 25. Doe not thinke that either thy secrecy or impudence can carry it away without notice.
47. Carry back.
trans. To take back in time by process of thought or retrospective action.
1722. De Foe, Plague (1756), 221. None knows how far to carry that back, or where to stop.
1876. Green, Short Hist., ii. § 7 (1882), 95. The legend … carries us back to the times of our own Ælfred.
48. Carry forth. See simple senses and FORTH.
49. Carry forward.
trans. To transfer from one column, page or book to its successor, or to the next account.
1839. Reply Lockhart’s Pamph., 97. Carry forward £41.478 15s. 5d.
50. Carry in. See senses 1–5, and IN adv.
51. Carry off.
a. trans. To remove from this life, be the death of.
c. 1680. Temple, Health & Long L., Wks. 1770, III. 275. Old Parr … might have … gone further, if the change of country diet and air for that of the town had not carried him off.
1710. Addison, Tatler, No. 221, ¶ 2. A Fever, which … at last carried him off.
1878. Seeley, Stein, III. 559. A serious cold, which in seven days carried him off.
b. To win (the prize, honors, etc.: cf. 15); so to carry it off.
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth, vi. Some of those who think they carry it off through the height of their plumed bonnets.
1882. Pebody, Eng. Journalism, vii. 57. The North Briton carried off the palm.
c. To cause to pass; to take away the adverse effect of; to render passable.
a. 1715. Burnet, Own Time, II. 177. They promised … to carry off his impeachment with a mild censure.
1863. Geo. Eliot, Romola, I. iii. A rapid intellect and ready eloquence may carry off a little impudence.
1879. Miss Braddon, Vixen, III. 152. I have not enough diamonds to carry off black velvet.
d. To bear it out, face or brave it out.
1692. R. L’Estrange, Fables, 240 (J.). If a Man carries it off, there’s so much Money sav’d.
1886. Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll, i. (ed. 2), 8. Frightened too … but carrying it off, sir, really like Satan.
52. Carry on.
a. trans. To continue or advance (a proceeding) from the stage already attained.
1649. Milton, Eikon., Wks. 1738, I. 377. To carry on the solemn jest.
1774. J. Bryant, Mythol., I. 374. Which … assisted to carry on the mistake.
1858. Trench, Parables, i. (1877), 68. They did but carry on the work which he had … begun.
1876. Green, Short Hist., viii. § 5 (1882), 511. Poetic Satire had become fashionable in Hall … and had been carried on vigorously by George Wither.
b. To maintain, keep up, prevent from stopping.
1606. Shaks., Tr. & Cr., II. iii. 174. He … carries on the streame of his dispose, Without obseruance or respect of any.
1707. Floyer, Physic. Pulse-Watch, 32. The Circulation will be carry’d on more rarely.
1790. Paley, Horæ Paul., I. viii. They carry on no connexion of argument.
1813. Jane Austen, Pride & Prej., xii. 232. The conversation was carried on.
1856. Brewster, Mart. Sci., II. ii. (ed. 3), 125. We at the same time carried on a regular series of observations.
1877. Brockett, Cross & Cresc., 34. The conflict which has been carried on for nearly three hundred years.
c. To practise continuously or habitually; to conduct, manage, work at, prosecute.
1644. Slingsby, Diary (1836), 127. Carrying on his business with so much success.
1712. Addison, Spect., No. 305, ¶ 5. The last War, which had been carried on so successfully.
1748. Anson’s Voy., I. v. 44. Besides the battery mentioned above, there are three other forts carrying on for the defence of the harbour.
1791. Smeaton, Edystone L., § 101. Plan for carrying on the works.
1802. Mar. Edgeworth, Moral T. (1816), I. 217. His trial must be carried on in open day.
1884. Ld. Coleridge, in Law Times Rep., 8 March, 45/1. Brickmaking, which is undoubtedly a business, was being carried on.
d. intr. (Naut.) To continue one’s course, move on.
1832. Blackw. Mag., April, 643. Carry on, carry on; reef none, boy, none.
1840. R. H. Dana, Bef. Mast, xxxiii. 125. As we were going before it [the gale], we could carry on.
1853. De Quincey, Sp. Mil. Nun, Wks. III. 35. She carried on, as sailors say, under easy sail.
e. To continue a course of conduct or relations; esp. (colloq.) to behave or ‘go on’ in some conspicuous way which one does not more minutely characterize.
1856. Whyte-Melville, Kate Cov., iii. How Lady Carmine’s eldest daughter is carrying on with young Thriftless.
1863. Bates, Nat. Amazons, vii. (1864), 195. More drinking is then necessary … and thus they carry on for many days in succession.
1886. Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll, iv. (ed. 2), 37. Stamping with his foot … and carrying on (as the maid described it) like a madman.
53. Carry out. (See senses 1–5, and OUT.)
† a. trans. To transport (the mind) in ecstasy or devotion. Obs.
1599. Davies, Immort. Soul, xxxv. (L.). These things transport and carrie out the mind.
1639. Harvey, in Carlyle, Cromwell (1872), V. x. 154. His requests, wherein his heart was so carried out for God and His People.
b. To conduct duly to completion or conclusion; to carry into practice or to logical consequences or inferences.
1605. Shaks., Lear, V. i. 61. Hardly shall I carry out my side, Her husband being aliue.
1840. Fraser’s Mag., XXII. 317. His jackass brother … ‘carried out,’ as the phrase now is, the principle so far that it drove him from the throne.
1856. Froude, Hist. Eng. (1858), I. ii. 117. Henry … proceeded to carry out his father’s ultimate intentions.
1875. Jowett, Plato’s Crito (ed. 2), I. 391. The law which requires a sentence to be carried out.
1885. Sir H. Cotton, in Law Rep., 30 Chanc. 13. I do not think that the cases … carry out the proposition for which he has cited them.
c. To carry out one’s bat (in Cricket): to leave the wickets (esp. at the close of the game) without being ‘out.’
1859. All Y. Round, No. 13. 306. We had made our 80 runs in less than two hours, and carried out our bats.
d. trans. To bear out (a corpse) for burial.
1526. Tindale, Acts v. 6. And the yonge men roose vp … and caryed him out, and buryed him [so 1611].
1832. Tennyson, May Q., New Year’s Eve, 42. When I have said good-night for evermore, And you see me carried out from the threshold of the door.
54. Carry over.
a. trans. To influence (any one) to pass over to the other side.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xvii. IV. 64. To carry over a regiment or two would do more harm than good. Ibid., xxii. Marlborough had promised to carry over the army, Russell to carry over the fleet.
b. To carry to a new account; to keep over to the next settling day on the Stock Exchange; to allow an account to remain open over the day when its settlement is due; also said of the debtors.
1745. De Foe’s Engl. Tradesm. (1841), II. 19. Carried over £10 14s. 2d.
1839. Reply Lockhart’s Pamph., 13. Balance carried over … £2932 4s. 4d.
1880. Standard, 29 Dec., 6/3. In North-Eastern the ‘carrying over’ rate was stated to have reached in the later hours as much as 1 per cent.
1887. Daily News, 26 Feb., 6/5. Many of the smaller brokers and dealers were ‘carried over’ on sufferance.
55. Carry through.
trans. To conduct or bring safely through difficulties, or a crisis; to prosecute to the natural end.
1605. Shaks., Lear, I. iv. 3. My good intent May carry through it selfe to that full issue for which I raiz’d my likenesse.
1832. Blackw. Mag., Jan., 67/2. It is by similar means that conservative meetings … may be carried through in every part of the country.
1863. trans. V. Hugo’s Miserables, viii. (ed. 7), 163. Impudence had carried him through before now.
1874. Act 37 & 38 Vict., xciv. § 10. Such petition shall be presented, published and carried through.
56. Carry up.
a. trans. To continue (building, etc.) to a given height.
1705. Stanhope, Paraphr. (ed. 2), I. 80. For carrying up his Spiritual House.
1747. Col. Rec. Penn., V. 61. So much of the Buildings as was carried up before such Notice.
1876. Gwilt, Archit., 566. Where walls … are to be carried up.
b. To bring up (one portion of a series or subject) so as to preserve its due relation to the rest.
1630. Wadsworth, Sp. Pilg., iii. 17. We march forth of the Colledge by 2. and 2. Father Thunder himselfe carrying vp the reare.
1817. Jas. Mill, Brit. India, II. V. iii. 392. Unable to carry up its payments to the level of the taxation.
c. To trace back in time.
1677. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., II. ii. 136. He carries up the Egyptian Dynasties before the Flood.
1862. Stanley, Jew. Ch. (1877), I. iv. 64. The feud … is carried up by them to the feud between Joseph and his brethren.
† d. To bear, holding up; to hold up. Obs.
1563. Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 66/2. She was caried up from drowning.
1613. Shaks., Hen. VIII., IV. i. 51. She that carries vp the Traine.
1685. Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), I. 339–40. These six persons following carried up the pall.
e. = Carry over or forward to the top of a new column, in accounts.
