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

Locke.

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

6. 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 greater part carries
it." Shak.

The carrying of our main point.

Addison.

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