Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CAR'RY, v.t. [W. cariaw, from car, a dray, drag, or wagon; Fr. charrier; Arm. charreat or charrecin; Sp. acarrear; Dan. kiörer; Sw. kiöra; G. karren. These verbs signify primarily, to carry on a cart or car, and are evidently from the noun. But the English carry coincides also with the Latin gero, our vulgar kerry; for the sense of behavior can hardly proceed from the moving of a wheel-carriage, nor indeed can some other senses of this word. But the primary sense, in both cases, is to move.]

1. To bear, convey, or transport, by sustaining and moving the thing carried, either by bodily strength, upon a beast, in a vehicle, or in any kind of water-craft. In general, it implies a moving from the speaker or the place present or near, to a place more distant, and so is opposed to bring and fetch, and it is often followed by from, away, off, out. He shall carry the lambs in his bosom. – Is. xi. When he dieth, he shall carry nothing away. – Ps. xlix.
2. To convey; as, sound is carried in the air.
3. To effect; to accomplish; to prevail; to gain the object; as, to carry a point, measure, or resolution; to carry a prize; to carry a fortified town by force of arms; sometimes followed by it. Whose wills will carry it over the rest. – Locke. Burke.
4. To bear out; to fare through. If a man carries it off, there is so much money saved. – L'Estrange.
5. To urge, impel, lead or draw, noting moral impulse. Pride or passion will carry a man to great lengths. Men are carried away with imaginary prospects. See Eph. iv. I4. Heb. xiii. 9.
6. To bear; to have. In some vegetables, we see something that carries a kind of analogy to sense. – Hale.
7. To bear; to show, display or exhibit to view. The aspect of every one in the family carries satisfaction. – Addison.
8. To imply or import. To quit former tenets carries an imputation of ignorance. – Locke.
9. To contain or comprise. He thought it carried something of argument in it, to prove that doctrine. – Watts.
10. To extend or continue in time; as, to carry a historical account to the first ages of the world; but usually with a particle; as, to carry up or carry back, to carry forward.
11. To extend in space; as, to carry a line or a boundary; or in a moral sense; as, to carry ideas very far.
12. To support or sustain. Carry camomile on sticks. – Bacon.
13. To bear or produce, as trees. Set them a reasonable depth, and they will carry more shoots upon the stem. – Bacon.
14. To manage or transact, usually with on; as, to carry on business.
15. To carry one's self, to behave, conduct, or demean. He carried himself insolently. – Clarendon. Sometimes with it; as, he carried it high.
16. To remove, lead or drive. And he carried away all his cattle. – Gen. xxxi.
17. To remove; to cause to go. And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel to Assyria. – 2 Kings xviii.
18. To transport; to affect with extraordinary impressions on the mind. – Rev. xvii.
19. To fetch and bring. Young whelps learn easily to carry. – Ascham.
20. To transfer; as, to carry an account to the ledger. War was to be diverted from Greece by being carried into Asia. – Mitford. To carry coals, to bear injuries. – Mason. To carry off, to remove to a distance; also, to kill; as, to be carried off by sickness. To carry on, to promote, advance, or help forward; to continue; as, to carry on a design; to carry on the administration of grace. #2. To manage or prosecute; as, to carry on husbandry. #3. To prosecute, continue, or pursue; as, to carry on trade or war. To carry through, to support to the end; to sustain or keep from failing, or being subdued. Grace will carry man through all difficulties. Hammond. To carry out, to bear from within; also, to sustain to the end; to continue to the end. To carry away, in seamanship, is to break; to carry sail till a spar breaks; as, to carry away a fore-topmast.