Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Career

Career , noun

[French carrière race course, high road, street, from Latin carrus wagon. See Car.]

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 soldier.
An impartial view of his whole career. — Macaulay
4.
(Falconry) The flight of a hawk.

Career , intransitive verb

To move or run rapidly.
Careering gayly over the curling waves. — W. Irving