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Car"rot*y, a. Like a carrot in
color or in taste; -- an epithet given to reddish yellow hair,
etc.

Car"row (?), n. [Ir & Gael.
carach cunning.] A strolling gamester.
[Ireland] Spenser.

Car"ry (?), v. t. [imp. &
p. p. Carried (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Carrying.] [OF. carier,
charier, F. carrier, to cart, from OF. car,
char, F. car, car. See Car.]
1. To convey or transport in any manner from
one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or
off.

When he dieth he small 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.

2. 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.


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