<B>careenage, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a place for careening a ship. <DD><B> 2. </B>a charge for careening a ship. </DL>
<A NAME="career">
<B>career, </B>noun, verb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1a. </B>a general course of action or progress through life. <BR> <I>Ex. It is interesting to read of the careers of great men and women.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>way of living; occupation or profession. <BR> <I>Ex. The boy planned to make law his career.</I> (SYN) vocation, calling. <DD><B> c. </B>notable success or advancement in any particular profession, trade, or the like. <BR> <I>Ex. We can offer a career to a young man of energy and integrity.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a run at full speed; going with force; speed. <BR> <I>Ex. The boys raced downhill in full career to see who could get to school first.</I> (SYN) flight. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) steady and uninterrupted activity; the height of any course of action or process. <BR> <I>Ex. in the full career of success (Macaulay).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Obsolete.) <DD><B> a. </B>a gallop at full speed; charge. <DD><B> b. </B>a frisk; gambol. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Obsolete.) <DD><B> a. </B>a path; way; road. <DD><B> b. </B>a race course. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to rush along wildly; dash. <BR> <I>Ex. The runaway horse careered through the streets. The little boy was careering about the room.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to ride or drive (a horse or vehicle) at full speed. <BR> <I>Ex. A Moor is born ... to career the steed (Washington Irving).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to move or gallop swiftly. <BR> <I>Ex. The moon was careering the clouds.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> following a certain occupation or profession throughout life. <BR> <I>Ex. a career diplomat.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="careergirl">
<B>career girl</B> or <B>woman,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a girl or woman who pursues an occupational career. </DL>
<A NAME="careerism">
<B>careerism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the methods or practices of a person interested in achieving personal advancement in his career or profession, often without consideration of or for other persons or things. <BR> <I>Ex. Where ... could one find a pure passion for learning uncontaminated by snobbery or careerism? (Harper's).</I> noun <B>careerist.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="careerman">
<B>careerman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a man who pursues a career; professional. <DD><B> 2. </B>a career diplomat. </DL>
<A NAME="careersmaster">
<B>careers master,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person who gives vocational guidance in a secondary school in Great Britain. </DL>
<A NAME="carefree">
<B>carefree, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> without worry; happy; gay. <BR> <I>Ex. a carefree attitude, a carefree summer doing what one pleases.</I> noun <B>carefreeness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="careful">
<B>careful, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>thinking what one says or watching what one does; taking pains; watchful; cautious. <BR> <I>Ex. He is careful to tell the truth at all times. I felt just sufficient fear to render me careful (John Tyndall). You'll get a good dinner, but be careful of the sweets (Graham Greene).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>showing care; done with thought or effort; exact; through. <BR> <I>Ex. Arithmetic requires careful work. His drawing was careful.</I> (SYN) painstaking, meticulous, accurate. <DD><B> 3. </B>full of care or concern; attentive to the interests of others; exercising care. <BR> <I>Ex. She was careful of the feelings of others. Be careful of the horses, Sam ... don't ride them too fast (Harriet Beecher Stowe).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Archaic.) anxious; worried. <BR> <I>Ex. It is a sight the careful brow might smooth (Byron).</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Archaic.) (of things) fraught with care; attended with sorrow, trouble, or anxiety. <BR> <I>Ex. He upon his careful couch hears all around the deep and longdrawn breath of sleep (Robert Southey).</I> adv. <B>carefully.</B> noun <B>carefulness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="caregiver">
<B>caregiver, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who provides care for the very young, sick, or elderly. <BR> <I>Ex. ... the link between early "attachments" to a primary caregiver and later adaptation at school (Science News).</I> n., adj. <B>caregiving.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="carelabel">
<B>care label,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a label on a garment or fabric containing cleaning or laundering instructions. </DL>
<A NAME="careless">
<B>careless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>not thinking what one says or not watching what one does; not taking enough pains; not careful. <BR> <I>Ex. That careless boy broke the cup. A careless mistake ruined the experiment.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>done without enough thought or effort; not exact or thorough. <BR> <I>Ex. careless work.</I> (SYN) headless, inaccurate, negligent. <DD><B> 3. </B>artless; unstudied. <BR> <I>Ex. to flop into a chair with careless ease; ... one evening, as he framed the careless rhyme (James Beattie).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>not caring or troubling; indifferent. <BR> <I>Ex. He has a careless attitude toward his homework, rarely getting it done on time ... careless their merits or their faults to scan (Oliver Goldsmith); ... careless of mankind (Tennyson).</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>without worry; happy. <BR> <I>Ex. Thus wisely careless, innocently gay, Cheerful he played the trifle, Life, away (Alexander Pope).</I> (SYN) untroubled, gay. adv. <B>carelessly.</B> noun <B>carelessness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="carene">
<B>carene, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a forty days' fast on bread and water, formerly imposed by a bishop, upon clergy or laity, or by an abbot upon monks. </DL>
<A NAME="caress">
<B>caress, </B>noun, verb, <B>-ressed</B> or (Archaic or Poetic) <B>-rest,</B> <B>-ressing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a touch showing affection; tender embrace or kiss. <BR> <I>Ex. The little boy was embarrassed by his aunt's caresses.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>an expression of public regard or esteem; show of popular favor. <BR> <I>Ex. when the gifts and caresses of mankind shall recompense the toils of study (Samuel Johnson).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1a. </B>to touch or stroke affectionately; embrace or kiss tenderly. <BR> <I>Ex. The mother caressed her baby. My very hands seem to caress her (Longfellow).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to touch lightly; affect in a soothing manner. <BR> <I>Ex. Its prolonged echoes caress the ear (James Russell Lowell).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to treat with kindness; show favor to. <BR> <I>Ex. without being much countenanced or caressed by his superiors (Samuel Johnson).</I> adj. <B>caressable.</B> noun <B>caresser.</B> adv. <B>caressingly.</B> </DL>
<B>caressive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>habitually caressing. <DD><B> 2. </B>of the nature of a caress. <BR> <I>Ex. [He] is an ingenious orchestrator whose often unique ... instrumental combinations give off a moody, feline, caressive air (Whitney Balliett).</I> adv. <B>caressively.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="caret">
<B>caret</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a mark placed below a line to show where something should be put in, used in writing and in printing. </DL>
<A NAME="caret">
<B>caret</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a sea turtle having a mouth shaped like a hawk's beak; hawksbill turtle. </DL>
<A NAME="caretaker">
<B>caretaker, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a person who takes care of another person, a place, or a thing, often for the owner or for somebody else. <BR> <I>Ex. The caretaker of the house met them, hat in hand (W. G. Willis).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> (of a government or management) carrying on the functions of an office on a temporary basis pending an election, the accession of a new administration, or the like. <BR> <I>Ex. caretaker government. For a year [he] held the premiership in a "caretaker" capacity (Maclean's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="caretaking">
<B>caretaking, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the work or responsibility of a caretaker, especially keeping someone else's house or grounds in good order. </DL>
<A NAME="careworn">
<B>careworn, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> showing signs of worry; tire or weary from care. <BR> <I>Ex. The old woman had a careworn look on her face.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="careystreet">
<B>Carey Street,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a state of bankruptcy. <BR> <I>Ex. "Ending up on Carey Street" is still an amusing euphemism for going bankrupt (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="carfare">
<B>carfare, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) the money paid for riding on a bus or subway, in a taxicab, or other passenger vehicle. </DL>
<A NAME="carferry">
<B>car ferry,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a vessel for transporting railroad cars or automobiles across a body of water. <DD><B> 2. </B>an aircraft used to transport automobiles across a body of water. <BR> <I>Ex. [He] roared out to the airport, put his car on a ... car ferry, landed at Le Bourget and zipped into Paris in 2 hr. 45 min. (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="carfloat">
<B>car float,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a barge for transporting railroad cars. </DL>
<A NAME="carful">
<B>carful, </B>noun, pl. <B>-fuls.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> as much as a car holds; enough to fill a car. <BR> <I>Ex. a carful of children.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cargador">
<B>cargador, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=porter.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>a man who supervises the loading and driving of pack animals. </DL>
<A NAME="cargo">
<B>cargo, </B>noun, pl., <B>-goes</B> or <B>-gos.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the load of goods carried by a ship or aircraft; freight. <BR> <I>Ex. The freighter had docked to unload a cargo of wheat. Quinquireme of Ninevah ... rowing home to haven ... with a cargo of ivory and apes and peacocks (John Masefield).</I> (SYN) lading. <DD><B> 2. </B>a large quantity; load; burden. <BR> <I>Ex. When they moved, their chief care was their cargo of books. Of our ten animals, six were intended for riding, and four for carrying cargoes (Charles Darwin).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cargocult">
<B>cargo cult,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various cults of the South Pacific having as their central idea that ancestors or gods will return bearing huge cargoes of Western goods. <BR> <I>Ex. Cargo cults originated in the people's bewilderment at the richness of the Europeans who were then beginning to visit their country (Kenneth Ingham).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cargoliner">
<B>cargo liner,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a large aircraft for carrying cargo, especially on a commercial airline. <DD><B> 2. </B>any liner used for carrying cargo, especially one belonging to a shipping line. </DL>
