cary

present singular third person caries · participle present carying · participle past caried · past caried

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of carry.

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   That firſt, and higheſt Sphere, / That mooues, and is not moou’d againe / Of any other heauen, that mooues one whit: / The which with his Careare, / And ſwifteſt courſe doth turne away / The loweſt heauens, and caries after it: / An order doth admit, / And doth maintaine, not erring in the leſt: / For it doth cary them with ſpeede, / And with more haſte (indeede) / The neareſt heauen to it, from Eaſt to Weſt: / But rule thou doſt diſdaine, / And onely without order doſt remaine.

   1598, George of Montemayor, translated by Bartholomew Yong, Diana of George of Montemayor, London: […] Edm. Bollifant, [i]mpensis G[eorge] B[ishop], pages 194–195

1. A surname, a less common spelling of Carey.
2. A male given name transferred from the surnames.

   "You'll laugh when I tell you my name. All I can say is, nobody consulted me." "Why, what's your name?" Laughing now as he stepped past her into the hall. "Cary," he told her. "After the actor. Only I've never managed to be quite so suave."

   1999, Ian Rankin, Dead Souls, →ISBN, page 246

3. A diminutive of the female given name Caroline.

   "My sister gave it me,—my only sister, Cary. Would that your aunt Caroline had lived to see her niece!"

   1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “The West Wind Blows”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 40

4. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A village in Algonquin Township, McHenry County and Cuba Township, Lake County, Illinois.
   2. An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Putnam County, Indiana.
   3. A ghost town in Harrison Township, Miami County, Indiana.
   4. An unorganised township in Aroostook County, Maine.
   5. A town in Sharkey County, Mississippi.
   6. A town in Wake County, Chatham County and Durham County, North Carolina.
   7. A town in Wood County, Wisconsin.
5. A river in Somerset, England, which flows into the River Parrett.