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<A NAME="carrickbend">
<B>carrick bend,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a type of knot used to join cables, hawsers, or heavy ropes. </DL>
<A NAME="carrickbitt">
<B>carrick bitt,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> one of the bitts or posts which hold a ship's windlass on either side. </DL>
<A NAME="carrickmacrosslace">
<B>Carrickmacross lace,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a lace from the vicinity of Carrickmacross in Ireland, consisting of a pattern cut from cambric and applied to net. <BR> <I>Ex. She was attired in a bouffant gown of light ivory satin and heirloom Carrickmacross lace (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="carried">
<B>carried, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) rapt in thought; abstracted. </DL>
<A NAME="carrier">
<B>carrier, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>a person or thing that carries something. A postman is a mail carrier. A porter is a baggage carrier. <DD><B> b. </B>a bearer; messenger. <BR> <I>Ex. A jungle safari usually has water carriers. Troubadours and peddlers were often carriers of news.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a company that transports goods or people, usually over certain routes and according to fixed schedules. Bus systems, truck companies, airlines, and railroads are carriers. <BR> <I>Ex. The carriers say they need to lift rates to offset higher labor, tax and service costs (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 3a. </B>a person or thing that carries or transmits a disease. Carriers are often healthy persons who are immune to a disease, but carry its germs. <BR> <I>Ex. The outbreak of typhoid fever was traced to a single carrier.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a person or animal that carries and transmits a recessive gene. <BR> <I>Ex. If the carrier bull is mated to a dwarf-free cow, no dwarfs will appear in the first generation, but half of the calves will be carriers (Time).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>any rack or carriage for parcels or luggage, such as a bicycle rack for small parcels or a cart for wheeling luggage at an air terminal. <DD><B> 5. </B><B>=aircraft carrier.</B> <DD><B> 6. </B><B>=carrier wave.</B> <DD><B> 7. </B>(Chemistry.) a catalytic agent which brings about, or helps in, the transference of an element or group from one compound to another. <BR> <I>Ex. Iron can be a carrier of oxygen.</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>a drain or channel for water or other liquid. <DD><B> 9. </B>a mechanical part or device by which something is carried, moved, or driven. <DD><B> 10. </B><B>=carrier pigeon.</B> <DD><B> 11. </B><B>Carrier,</B> a North American Indian tribe belonging to the Athapascan family, living in British Columbia. </DL>
<B>carrier-based, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> operating from an aircraft carrier. <BR> <I>Ex. carrier-based planes.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="carrierpigeon">
<B>carrier pigeon,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a homing pigeon; a pigeon trained to return to its home when released many miles away. <BR> <I>Ex. Carrier (homing) pigeons are a domesticated version of pigeons that thrive in city parks, trained to get the message through (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of a breed of large, domestic pigeons raised as show birds. The carrier pigeon is descended from the rock dove and has a long, erect body and large wattle. </DL>
<A NAME="carrierrocket">
<B>carrier rocket,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a rocket designed to carry or launch something, such as an artificial satellite. <BR> <I>Ex. The carrier rocket separated from the cone-shaped satellite once it reached its orbit.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="carriertransmission">
<B>carrier transmission,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a way of sending several telephone conversations, each at a different frequency, on the same pair of wires. Electronic filters at each end of the line sort out the conversations. </DL>
<A NAME="carrierwave">
<B>carrier wave,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a radio wave whose intensity and frequency are varied in order to transmit a signal, usually in broadcasting radio and television programs and sending telephone and telegraph messages. </DL>
<A NAME="carriole">
<B>carriole, </B>noun. <B>=cariole.</B></DL>
<A NAME="carrion">
<B>carrion, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>dead and decaying flesh. <BR> <I>Ex. Some crows feed largely on carrion.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) rottenness; filth; garbage. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>dead and decaying. <DD><B> 2. </B>feeding on dead and decaying flesh. <BR> <I>Ex. a carrion crow.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) rotten; filthy. </DL>
<A NAME="carrioncrow">
<B>carrion crow,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the common European crow that feeds on carrion. <DD><B> 2. </B>a black vulture of the southern United States. </DL>
<A NAME="carritch">
<B>carritch, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) a catechism. </DL>
<B>carroccio, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ci.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the car of war, on which the standard was borne into battle, peculiar to the Italian republics of the Middle Ages. </DL>
<A NAME="carrollite">
<B>carrollite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a sulfide of copper and cobalt obtained from Carroll County, Maryland. </DL>
<B>carromata, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in the Philippines) a two-wheeled work cart, usually pulled by one horse or other draft animal. </DL>
<A NAME="carronade">
<B>carronade, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a short cannon with a large bore, not used now. </DL>
<A NAME="carronoil">
<B>carron oil,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a liniment composed of equal parts of linseed oil and lime water, used for burns. </DL>
<A NAME="carrot">
<B>carrot, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a plant which has a long, tapering, orange-red root. It belongs to the parsley family. <DD><B> 2. </B>its root, which is eaten as a vegetable, either cooked or raw. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) a reward or gain, especially one that is tantalizing and hard to attain. <BR> <I>Ex. The capital grants ... are a juicy carrot to hang before boards that are contemplating expansion (New York Times).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to prepare (fur) for felting by subjecting it to chemical action, usually with mercuric nitrate. </DL>
<A NAME="carrotandstick">
<B>carrot and stick,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an incentive or reward joined with a threat or risk. <BR> <I>Ex. Profit and loss, then, is ... the carrot and stick of industry and commerce. Under capitalism, the carrot is the pleasure of profit, the stick is the pain of loss (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="carrottop">
<B>carrottop, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) a person having red hair; redhead. </DL>
<A NAME="carrotweed">
<B>carrot weed,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the ragweed, whose foliage somewhat resembles that of the carrot. </DL>
<A NAME="carroty">
<B>carroty, </B>adjective, <B>-rotier,</B> <B>-rotiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>like a carrot in color; orange-red. <BR> <I>Ex. She was attractive, with ... amazing hair, which could only be described as a carroty, fiery orange colour (Cape Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>red-haired. <BR> <I>Ex. The plainest, oldest, and carrotiest of the three redheaded maids (C. N. and A. M. Williamson).</I> noun <B>carrotiness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="carrousel">
<B>carrousel, </B>noun. Also, <B>carousel.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a merry-go-round. <BR> <I>Ex. It's within sound of the merry carrousel calliope (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a circular conveyor, as for the delivery of luggage at an airport. <DD><B> 3. </B>a circular tray for a slide projector. <DD><B> 4. </B>Also, <B>carousal.</B> <DD> (Historical.) a tournament in which companies of knights engaged in various exercises, often including chariot races and other entertainments. </DL>
<A NAME="carrozza">
<B>carrozza, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ze.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Italian.) a carriage. <BR> <I>Ex. So I went out into the warm Roman night and hired myself a carrozza, one of the four-wheel horse-drawn cabs (Maclean's).</I> </DL>
