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.

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

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.

The carrying of our main point.
Addison.

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

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

It carries too great an imputation of ignorance.
Lacke.

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

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.

To carry on, to behave in a wild, rude, or romping manner. [Colloq.]