The dial or face of the magnetic compass-card.
"Reason the card, but passion is the gale."
♦ Pope.
Probably derived from cardinal.
·vt To clean or clear, as if by using a card. II. Card ·vi To play at cards; to <<Game>>. III. Car...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·- Mariner's card, or compass. ...
See Car Court. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
A gay fluttering coxcomb. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
See fly ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Transparent graduated horn-plates to use on charts, either as protractors or for meteorological purp...
A chart; thus Shakspeare's first witch in Macbeth had winds "And the very ports they blow, All t...