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Card
CARD, n.
1. A paper or pasteboard of a oblong figure, on which are painted figures or points; used in games.
2. A blank piece of paper, or the like paper with some writing upon it, used in messages of civility, or business.
3. The paper on which the points of the compass are marked.
Reason the card, but passion is the gale.
CARD, v.i. To play much at cards; to gain.
CARD, n. An instrument for combing, opening and breaking wool or flax, freeing it from the coarser parts, and from extraneous matter. It is made by inserting bent teeth of wire in a thick piece of leather, and nailing this to a piece of oblong board, to which a handle is attached.
CARD, v.t. To comb, or open wool, flax, hemp, etc., with a card, for the purpose of cleansing it of extraneous matter, separating the coarser parts, and making it fine and soft for spinning.
card appears in definitions for these words:
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Above Ace All-fours Amomum Artichoke Basset Beast Bone-ace Brag Cajeput Candlemas Canon Cap Capot Card Card-maker Card-match Carded Carder Cardiac Cardialgy Cardinal Cardinalate Cardinalship Carding Cardite Cardoon Carrows Cassino Cater Cheat Clary-water Club Coat Cochineal Cockle College Colure Comet Compass Conclave Congregation Consistory Cotton-machine Cotton-mill Cribbage Crimp Cuckoo-bud Cuckoo-flower Cut Deal Dealer Deck Deuce Discard East Eminence Etiquet Fall Flush Game Gamester Gaming Gimbal Gladiole Gleek Goldfinch Hand Hat Heart-burn Heart-pea Hinge Indult Job Keen King Knave Lady-fly Langteraloo Lansquenet Legate Linnet Loo Matadore Milksop Noddy North Northerly Number Oblike Omber Pack Pair-royal Penitentiary Picket Pip Piquet Play Point Pope-joan Post Poule Presence Primero Protector Prothonotary Purple Put Quadrille Quart Quarter Revie Revoke Rhumb-line Round Ruff Sea-card Sea-compass Shuffle Shuffler Shuffling Slam Spade Stick Stock Strike Suit Swobber Tease Teased Teasing Terce-major Thistle Ticket Tierce Tight Tooth Trey Trick Triumph Trump Vicar Vice-legate Vigil Vole Wave-offering West Whist Wind Wreck
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