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Webster 1913 Edition
Career
1.
A race course: the ground run over.
To go back again the same
career
. Sir P. Sidney.
2.
A running; full speed; a rapid course.
When a horse is running in his full
career
. Wilkins.
3.
General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character;
as, Washington’s
. career
as a soldierAn impartial view of his whole
career
. Macaulay.
4.
(Falconry)
The flight of a hawk.
Ca-reer′
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Careered
3; p. pr. & vb. n.
Careering
] To move or run rapidly.
Careering
gayly over the curling waves. W. Irving.
Webster 1828 Edition
Career
CAREER
,Noun.
1.
A course; a race, or running; a rapid running; speed in motion.2.
General course of action or movement; procedure; course of proceeding.Continue and proceed in honors fair career.
3.
The ground on which a race is run.4.
In the manege, a place inclosed with a barrier, in which they run the ring.5.
In falconry, a flight or tour of the hawk, about 120 yards.CAREER
,Verb.
I.
When a ship is decked out in all her canvas, every sail swelled, and careering gayly over the curling waves, how lofty, how gallant she appears!