Card

·vt To clean or clear, as if by using a card.

II. Card ·vi To play at cards; to Game.

III. Card ·vt To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.

IV. Card ·noun An indicator card. ·see under Indicator.

V. Card ·noun A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.

VI. Card ·vt To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse.

VII. Card ·noun A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.

VIII. Card ·noun A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. ·see Jacquard.

IX. Card ·noun A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; ·pl a game played with cards.

X. Card ·noun An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, ·etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals;

— usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.

XI. Card ·noun A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (·fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair.