Carouse, a drinking-bout, a large draught. It is usually derived from Germ. gar aus, 'all out,' which seems to be confirmed by "boire caraus et alluz" (Rabelais, iii. Prol.). In German Rausch is intoxication; and this may be the origin of carouse.
Carpet-knight (Tw. N. iii. 4), civilian knight, as opposed to the military knight; so named probably from the carpet which covered the table—not the floor—in the room in which the ceremony of conferring knighthood took place.
Carraways (2 Hen. IV. v. 3) in the form of comfits, with apples, were used at the dessert.
Carry coals, a term of reproach, because fetching charcoal, firewood, etc., was the office of the lowest servants in a household.
Carve. This verb, beside its ordinary sense, seems to have that of talking agreeably, jesting, etc. (L. L. L. v. 2, Mer. W. i. 3). In Herbert's Prophecy of Cadwallader, 1604, we have
"There might you Caius Marius carving find,
And martial Sylla courting Venus kind."
It may be only a form of the old carpe:—
"In fellowship well could she laugh and carpe."
Cant. Tales, Prol.