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   car horn
         n 1: a device on an automobile for making a warning noise [syn:
               {automobile horn}, {car horn}, {motor horn}, {horn},
               {hooter}]

English Dictionary: car horn by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
career man
n
  1. a man who is a careerist
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
careworn
adj
  1. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens
    Synonym(s): careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, worn
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Career \Ca*reer"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Careered} 3; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Careering}]
      To move or run rapidly.
  
               areering gayly over the curling waves.   --W. Irving.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Careworn \Care"worn`\, a.
      Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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. [bd]The greater part carries it.[b8]
            --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. [bd]Grace will carry us .
                  . . through all difficulties.[b8] --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. [bd]He carries weight, he rides a
                  race[b8] --Cowper.
            (b) To have influence.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rhinoceros \Rhi*noc"e*ros\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?][?][?],
      [?][?][?]; [?][?][?]. [?][?][?], the nose + [?][?][?] a horn:
      cf. F. rhinoc[82]ros. See {Horn}.] (Zo[94]l.)
      Any pachyderm belonging to the genera {Rhinoceros},
      {Atelodus}, and several allied genera of the family
      {Rhinocerotid[91]}, of which several living, and many
      extinct, species are known. They are large and powerful, and
      usually have either one or two stout conical median horns on
      the snout.
  
      Note: The Indian, or white, and the Javan rhinoceroses
               ({Rhinoceros Indicus} and {R. Sondaicus}) have incisor
               and canine teeth, but only one horn, and the very thick
               skin forms shieldlike folds. The two or three African
               species belong to {Atelodus}, and have two horns, but
               lack the dermal folds, and the incisor and canine
               teeth. The two Malay, or East Indian, two-horned
               species belong to {Ceratohinus}, in which incisor and
               canine teeth are present. See {Borele}, and {Keitloa}.
  
      {Rhinoceros auk} (Zo[94]l.), an auk of the North Pacific
            ({Cerorhina monocrata}) which has a deciduous horn on top
            of the bill.
  
      {Rhinoceros beetle} (Zo[94]l.), a very large beetle of the
            genus {Dynastes}, having a horn on the head.
  
      {Rhinoceros bird}. (Zo[94]l.)
      (a) A large hornbill ({Buceros rhinoceros}), native of the
            East Indies. It has a large hollow hornlike process on
            the bill. Called also {rhinoceros hornbill}. See
            {Hornbill}.
      (b) An African beefeater ({Buphaga Africana}). It alights on
            the back of the rhinoceros in search of parasitic
            insects.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cherry \Cher"ry\, n. [OE. chery, for cherys, fr. F. cerise (cf.
      AS. cyrs cherry), fr. LL. ceresia, fr. L. cerasus Cherry
      tree, Gr. [?], perh. fr. [?] horn, from the hardness of the
      wood.]
      1. (Bot.) A tree or shrub of the genus {Prunus} (Which also
            includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony
            stone;
            (a) The common garden cherry ({Prunus Cerasus}), of which
                  several hundred varieties are cultivated for the
                  fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart,
                  black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke
                  (corrupted from M[82]doc in France).
            (b) The wild cherry; as, {Prunus serotina} (wild black
                  cherry), valued for its timber; {P. Virginiana} (choke
                  cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent
                  fruit; {P. avium} and {P. Padus}, European trees (bird
                  cherry).
  
      2. The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors
            and flavors.
  
      3. The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry,
            used in cabinetmaking, etc.
  
      4. A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry.
  
      {Barbadoes cherry}. See under {Barbadoes}.
  
      {Cherry bird} (Zo[94]l.), an American bird; the cedar bird;
            -- so called from its fondness for cherries.
  
      {Cherry bounce}, cherry brandy and sugar.
  
      {Cherry brandy}, brandy in which cherries have been steeped.
           
  
      {Cherry laurel} (Bot.), an evergreen shrub ({Prunus
            Lauro-cerasus}) common in shrubberies, the poisonous
            leaves of which have a flavor like that of bitter almonds.
           
  
      {Cherry pepper} (Bot.), a species of {Capsicum} ({C.
            cerasiforme}), with small, scarlet, intensely piquant
            cherry-shaped fruit.
  
      {Cherry pit}.
            (a) A child's play, in which cherries are thrown into a
                  hole. --Shak.
            (b) A cherry stone.
  
      {Cherry rum}, rum in which cherries have been steeped.
  
      {Cherry sucker} (Zo[94]l.), the European spotted flycatcher
            ({Musicapa grisola}); -- called also {cherry chopper}
            {cherry snipe}.
  
      {Cherry tree}, a tree that bears cherries.
  
      {Ground cherry}, {Winter cherry}, See {Alkekengi}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Churrworm \Churr"worm`\, n. [AS. cyrran, cerran, to turn.]
      (Zo[94]l.)
      An insect that turns about nimbly; the mole cricket; --
      called also {fan cricket}. --Johnson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cruorin \Cru"o*rin\ (-?-r?n), n. (Physiol.)
      The coloring matter of the blood in the living animal;
      h[91]moglobin.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Curarine \Cu"ra*rine\ (k?"r?-r?n [or] k?-r?"r?n; 104), n.
      (Chem.)
      A deadly alkaloid extracted from the curare poison and from
      the {Strychnos toxifera}. It is obtained in crystalline
      colorless salts.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Curia \[d8]Cu"ri*a\ (k?"r?-?), n.; pl. {Curle} (-[?]). [L.]
      1. (Rom. Antiq.)
            (a) One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people
                  were divided by Romulus.
            (b) The place of assembly of one of these divisions.
            (c) The place where the meetings of the senate were held;
                  the senate house.
  
      2. (Middle Ages) The court of a sovereign or of a feudal
            lord; also; his residence or his household. --Burrill.
  
      3. (Law) Any court of justice.
  
      4. The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the
            machinery of administration; -- called also {curia
            Romana}.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Carrier Mills, IL
      Zip code(s): 62917

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Cherry Run, WV
      Zip code(s): 25427
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