Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Carry \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.

            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.

   7. To get possession of by force; to capture.

            The town would have been carried in the end.
                                                  --Bacon.

   8. To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of; to show or
      exhibit; to imply.

            He thought it carried something of argument in it.
                                                  --Watts.

            It carries too great an imputation of ignorance.
                                                  --Lacke.

   9. To bear (one's self); to behave, to conduct or demean; --
      with the reflexive pronouns.

            He carried himself so insolently in the house, and
            out of the house, to all persons, that he became
            odious.                               --Clarendon.

   10. To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as
       stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another; as,
       a merchant is carrying a large stock; a farm carries a
       mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry
       a life insurance.

   {Carry arms} (Mil. Drill), a command of the Manual of Arms
      directing the soldier to hold his piece in the right hand,
      the barrel resting against the hollow of the shoulder in a
      nearly perpendicular position. In this position the
      soldier is said to stand, and the musket to be held, at
      carry.

   {To carry all before one}, to overcome all obstacles; to have
      uninterrupted success.

   {To carry arms}
       (a) To bear weapons.
       (b) To serve as a soldier.

   {To carry away}.
       (a) (Naut.) to break off; to lose; as, to carry away a
           fore-topmast.
       (b) To take possession of the mind; to charm; to delude;
           as, to be carried by music, or by temptation.

   {To carry coals}, to bear indignities tamely, a phrase used
      by early dramatists, perhaps from the mean nature of the
      occupation. --Halliwell.

   {To carry coals to Newcastle}, to take things to a place
      where they already abound; to lose one's labor.

   {To carry off}
       (a) To remove to a distance.
       (b) To bear away as from the power or grasp of others.
       (c) To remove from life; as, the plague carried off
           thousands.

   {To carry on}
       (a) To carry farther; to advance, or help forward; to
           continue; as, to carry on a design.
       (b) To manage, conduct, or prosecute; as, to carry on
           husbandry or trade.

   {To carry out}.
       (a) To bear from within.
       (b) To put into execution; to bring to a successful
           issue.
       (c) To sustain to the end; to continue to the end.

   {To carry through}.
       (a) To convey through the midst of.
       (b) To support to the end; to sustain, or keep from
           falling, or being subdued. ``Grace will carry us . .
           . through all difficulties.'' --Hammond.
       (c) To complete; to bring to a successful issue; to
           succeed.

   {To carry up}, to convey or extend in an upward course or
      direction; to build.

   {To carry weight}.
       (a) To be handicapped; to have an extra burden, as when
           one rides or runs. ``He carries weight, he rides a
           race'' --Cowper.
       (b) To have influence.

Carrying \Car"ry*ing\, n.
   The act or business of transporting from one place to
   another.

   {Carrying place}, a carry; a portage.

   {Carrying trade}, the business of transporting goods, etc.,
      from one place or country to another by water or land;
      freighting.

            We are rivals with them in . . . the carrying trade.
                                                  --Jay.