cary

name

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."”

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!"”

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11. A river in Somerset, England, which flows into the River Parrett.

verb

1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of carry.

   “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.”