n. [ See Jacare. ] (Zool.) A South American crocodilian (Jacare sclerops) resembling the alligator in size and habits. The eye orbits are connected together, and surrounded by prominent bony ridges. Called also spectacled alligator, and spectacled cayman. [ Written also jacare. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name is also applied to allied species. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. caru, cearu; akin to OS. kara sorrow, Goth. kara, OHG chara, lament, and perh. to Gr. gh^rys voice. Not akin to cure. Cf. Chary. ] 1. A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity. [ 1913 Webster ]

The care of all the churches. 2 Cor. xi. 28. [ 1913 Webster ]

Him thy care must be to find. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Perplexed with a thousand cares. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness; watchfulness; as, take care; have a care. [ 1913 Webster ]

I thank thee for thy care and honest pains. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The object of watchful attention or anxiety. [ 1913 Webster ]

Right sorrowfully mourning her bereaved cares. Spenser.

Syn. -- Anxiety; solicitude; concern; caution; regard; management; direction; oversight. -- Care, Anxiety, Solicitude, Concern. These words express mental pain in different degress. Care belongs primarily to the intellect, and becomes painful from overburdened thought. Anxiety denotes a state of distressing uneasiness fron the dread of evil. Solicitude expresses the same feeling in a diminished degree. Concern is opposed to indifference, and implies exercise of anxious thought more or less intense. We are careful about the means, solicitous and anxious about the end; we are solicitous to obtain a good, anxious to avoid an evil. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Cared p. pr. & vb. n. Caring. ] [ AS. cearian. See Care, n. ] To be anxious or solicitous; to be concerned; to have regard or interest; -- sometimes followed by an objective of measure. [ 1913 Webster ]

I would not care a pin, if the other three were in. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Master, carest thou not that we perish? Mark. iv. 38. [ 1913 Webster ]

To care for. (a) To have under watchful attention; to take care of. (b) To have regard or affection for; to like or love. [ 1913 Webster ]

He cared not for the affection of the house. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having needed care and attention; as, well-cared-for children. Opposite of uncared-for. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. To incline to one side, or lie over, as a ship when sailing on a wind; to be off the keel. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Careened p. pr. & vb. n. Careening. ] [ OF. cariner, F. caréner, fr. OF. carène, the bottom of a ship, keel, fr. L. carina. ] (Naut.) To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. carénage. ] (Naut.) (a) Expense of careening ships. (b) A place for careening. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Careered 3; p. pr. & vb. n. Careering ] To move or run rapidly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Careering gayly over the curling waves. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. carrière race course, high road, street, fr. L. carrus wagon. See Car. ] 1. A race course: the ground run over. [ 1913 Webster ]

To go back again the same career. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A running; full speed; a rapid course. [ 1913 Webster ]

When a horse is running in his full career. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 soldier. [ 1913 Webster ]

An impartial view of his whole career. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Falconry) The flight of a hawk. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practice of advancing one's career at the expense of one's personal integrity. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A professional who follows a career. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ AS. caru, cearu; akin to OS. kara sorrow, Goth. kara, OHG chara, lament, and perh. to Gr. gh^rys voice. Not akin to cure. Cf. Chary. ] 1. A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity. [ 1913 Webster ]

The care of all the churches. 2 Cor. xi. 28. [ 1913 Webster ]

Him thy care must be to find. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Perplexed with a thousand cares. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness; watchfulness; as, take care; have a care. [ 1913 Webster ]

I thank thee for thy care and honest pains. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The object of watchful attention or anxiety. [ 1913 Webster ]

Right sorrowfully mourning her bereaved cares. Spenser.

Syn. -- Anxiety; solicitude; concern; caution; regard; management; direction; oversight. -- Care, Anxiety, Solicitude, Concern. These words express mental pain in different degress. Care belongs primarily to the intellect, and becomes painful from overburdened thought. Anxiety denotes a state of distressing uneasiness fron the dread of evil. Solicitude expresses the same feeling in a diminished degree. Concern is opposed to indifference, and implies exercise of anxious thought more or less intense. We are careful about the means, solicitous and anxious about the end; we are solicitous to obtain a good, anxious to avoid an evil. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Cared p. pr. & vb. n. Caring. ] [ AS. cearian. See Care, n. ] To be anxious or solicitous; to be concerned; to have regard or interest; -- sometimes followed by an objective of measure. [ 1913 Webster ]

I would not care a pin, if the other three were in. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Master, carest thou not that we perish? Mark. iv. 38. [ 1913 Webster ]

To care for. (a) To have under watchful attention; to take care of. (b) To have regard or affection for; to like or love. [ 1913 Webster ]

He cared not for the affection of the house. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having needed care and attention; as, well-cared-for children. Opposite of uncared-for. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. To incline to one side, or lie over, as a ship when sailing on a wind; to be off the keel. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Careened p. pr. & vb. n. Careening. ] [ OF. cariner, F. caréner, fr. OF. carène, the bottom of a ship, keel, fr. L. carina. ] (Naut.) To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. carénage. ] (Naut.) (a) Expense of careening ships. (b) A place for careening. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Careered 3; p. pr. & vb. n. Careering ] To move or run rapidly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Careering gayly over the curling waves. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. carrière race course, high road, street, fr. L. carrus wagon. See Car. ] 1. A race course: the ground run over. [ 1913 Webster ]

To go back again the same career. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A running; full speed; a rapid course. [ 1913 Webster ]

When a horse is running in his full career. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 soldier. [ 1913 Webster ]

An impartial view of his whole career. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Falconry) The flight of a hawk. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practice of advancing one's career at the expense of one's personal integrity. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A professional who follows a career. [ WordNet 1.5 ]