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career

career is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.A running; full speed; a rapid course. When a horse is running in his full career. Wilkins.
  2. 2.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 pubic character; as, Washington's career as a soldier. An impartial view of his whole career. Macaulay.
  3. 3.(Falconary) The fight of a hawk.
  4. 4.To move or run rapidly. areering gayly over the curling waves. W. Irving.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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