资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Car \Car\, n. [OF. car, char, F. cahr, fr. L. carrus, Wagon: a
   Celtic word; cf. W. car, Armor. karr, Ir. & Gael. carr. cf.
   {Chariot}.]
   1. A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but
      two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart.

   2. A vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad. [U. S.]

   Note: In England a railroad passenger car is called a railway
         carriage; a freight car a goods wagon; a platform car a
         goods truck; a baggage car a van. But styles of car
         introduced into England from America are called cars;
         as, tram car. Pullman car. See {Train}.

   3. A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor,
      dignity, or solemnity. [Poetic].

            The gilded car of day.                --Milton.

            The towering car, the sable steeds.   --Tennyson.

   4. (Astron.) The stars also called Charles's Wain, the Great
      Bear, or the Dipper.

            The Pleiads, Hyads, and the Northern Car. --Dryden.

   5. The cage of a lift or elevator.

   6. The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to
      contain passengers, ballast, etc.

   7. A floating perforated box for living fish. [U. S.]

   {Car coupling}, or {Car coupler}, a shackle or other device
      for connecting the cars in a railway train. [U. S.]

   {Dummy car} (Railroad), a car containing its own steam power
      or locomotive.

   {Freight car} (Railrood), a car for the transportation of
      merchandise or other goods. [U. S.]

   {Hand car} (Railroad), a small car propelled by hand, used by
      railroad laborers, etc. [U. S.]

   {Horse car}, or {Street car}, an omnibus car, draw by horses
      or other power upon rails laid in the streets. [U. S.]

   {Palace car}, {Drawing-room car}, {Sleeping car}, {Parlor
   car}, etc. (Railroad), cars especially designed and furnished
      for the comfort of travelers.



   3. Mounted soldiery; cavalry; -- used without the plural
      termination; as, a regiment of horse; -- distinguished
      from foot.

            The armies were appointed, consisting of twenty-five
            thousand horse and foot.              --Bacon.

   4. A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a
      clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.

   5. A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers
      were made to ride for punishment.

   6. Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a
      horse; a hobby.

   7. (Mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same
      character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a
      vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse -- said of a
      vein -- is to divide into branches for a distance.

   8. (Naut.)
      (a) See {Footrope}, a.
      (b) A breastband for a leadsman.
      (c) An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon.
      (d) A jackstay. --W. C. Russell. --Totten.

   Note: Horse is much used adjectively and in composition to
         signify of, or having to do with, a horse or horses,
         like a horse, etc.; as, horse collar, horse dealer or
         horse?dealer, horsehoe, horse jockey; and hence, often
         in the sense of strong, loud, coarse, etc.; as,
         horselaugh, horse nettle or horse-nettle, horseplay,
         horse ant, etc.

   {Black horse}, {Blood horse}, etc. See under {Black}, etc.

   {Horse aloes}, caballine aloes.

   {Horse ant} (Zo["o]l.), a large ant ({Formica rufa}); --
      called also {horse emmet}.

   {Horse artillery}, that portion of the artillery in which the
      cannoneers are mounted, and which usually serves with the
      cavalry; flying artillery.

   {Horse balm} (Bot.), a strong-scented labiate plant
      ({Collinsonia Canadensis}), having large leaves and
      yellowish flowers.

   {Horse bean} (Bot.), a variety of the English or Windsor bean
      ({Faba vulgaris}), grown for feeding horses.

   {Horse boat}, a boat for conveying horses and cattle, or a
      boat propelled by horses.

   {Horse bot}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Botfly}, and {Bots}.

   {Horse box}, a railroad car for transporting valuable horses,
      as hunters. [Eng.]

   {Horse} {breaker or trainer}, one employed in subduing or
      training horses for use.

   {Horse car}.
      (a) A railroad car drawn by horses. See under {Car}.
      (b) A car fitted for transporting horses.

   {Horse cassia} (Bot.), a leguminous plant ({Cassia
      Javanica}), bearing long pods, which contain a black,
      catharic pulp, much used in the East Indies as a horse
      medicine.

   {Horse cloth}, a cloth to cover a horse.

   {Horse conch} (Zo["o]l.), a large, spiral, marine shell of
      the genus Triton. See {Triton}.

   {Horse courser}.
      (a) One that runs horses, or keeps horses for racing.
          --Johnson.
      (b) A dealer in horses. [Obs.] --Wiseman.

   {Horse crab} (Zo["o]l.), the Limulus; -- called also
      {horsefoot}, {horsehoe crab}, and {king crab}.

   {Horse crevall['e]} (Zo["o]l.), the cavally.