| Card |
n. |
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. |
| Card |
n. |
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. |
| Card |
n. |
A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass. |
| Card |
n. |
A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard. |
| Card |
n. |
An indicator card. See under Indicator. |
| Card |
v. i. |
To play at cards; to game. |
| Card |
n. |
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. |
| Card |
n. |
A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine. |
| Card |
v. t. |
To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse. |
| Card |
v. t. |
To clean or clear, as if by using a card. |
| Card |
v. t. |
To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article. |
| Cardamine |
n. |
A genus of cruciferous plants, containing the lady's-smock, cuckooflower, bitter cress, meadow cress, etc. |
| Cardamom |
n. |
The aromatic fruit, or capsule with its seeds, of several plants of the Ginger family growing in the East Indies and elsewhere, and much used as a condiment, and in medicine. |
| Cardamom |
n. |
A plant which produces cardamoms, esp. Elettaria Cardamomum and several species of Amomum. |
| Cardboard |
n. |
A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often having a polished surface. |
| Cardcase |
n. |
A case for visiting cards. |
| Cardecu |
n. |
A quarter of a crown. |
| Carded |
imp. & p. p. |
of Card |
| Carder |
n. |
One who, or that which cards wool flax, etc. |
| Cardia |
n. |
The heart. |
| Cardia |
n. |
The anterior or cardiac orifice of the stomach, where the esophagus enters it. |
| Cardiac |
a. |
Pertaining to, resembling, or hear the heart; as, the cardiac arteries; the cardiac, or left, end of the stomach. |
| Cardiac |
a. |
Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant. |
| Cardiac |
n. |
A medicine which excites action in the stomach; a cardial. |
| Cardiacal |
a. |
Cardiac. |
| Cardiacle |
n. |
A pain about the heart. |
| Cardiagraph |
n. |
See Cardiograph. |
| Cardialgla |
n. |
Alt. of Cardialgy |
| Cardialgy |
n. |
A burning or gnawing pain, or feeling of distress, referred to the region of the heart, accompanied with cardiac palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion. |
| Cardigan jacket |
|
A warm jacket of knit worsted with or without sleeves. |
| Cardinal |
a. |
Of fundamental importance; preeminent; superior; chief; principal. |
| Cardinal |
a. |
One of the ecclesiastical princes who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college. |
| Cardinal |
a. |
A woman's short cloak with a hood. |
| Cardinal |
a. |
Mulled red wine. |
| Cardinalate |
n. |
The office, rank, or dignity of a cardinal. |
| Cardinalize |
v. t. |
To exalt to the office of a cardinal. |
| Cardinalship |
n. |
The condition, dignity, of office of a cardinal |
| Cardines |
pl. |
of Cardo |
| Carding |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Card |
| Carding |
a. |
The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc., by carding it. See the Note under Card, v. t. |
| Carding |
v. t. |
A roll of wool or other fiber as it comes from the carding machine. |
| Cardiogram |
n. |
The curve or tracing made by a cardiograph. |
| Cardiograph |
n. |
An instrument which, when placed in contact with the chest, will register graphically the comparative duration and intensity of the heart's movements. |
| Cardiographic |
a. |
Of or pertaining to, or produced by, a cardiograph. |
| Cardiography |
n. |
Description of the heart. |
| Cardiography |
n. |
Examination by the cardiograph. |
| Cardioid |
n. |
An algebraic curve, so called from its resemblance to a heart. |
| Cardioinhibitory |
a. |
Checking or arresting the heart's action. |
| Cardiolgy |
n. |
The science which treats of the heart and its functions. |
| Cardiometry |
n. |
Measurement of the heart, as by percussion or auscultation. |
| Cardiosclerosis |
n. |
Induration of the heart, caused by development of fibrous tissue in the cardiac muscle. |
| Cardiosphygmograph |
n. |
A combination of cardiograph and sphygmograph. |
| Carditis |
n. |
Inflammation of the fleshy or muscular substance of the heart. See Endocarditis and Pericarditis. |
| Cardo |
n. |
The basal joint of the maxilla in insects. |
| Cardo |
n. |
The hinge of a bivalve shell. |
| Cardol |
n. |
A yellow oily liquid, extracted from the shell of the cashew nut. |
| Cardoon |
n. |
A large herbaceous plant (Cynara Cardunculus) related to the artichoke;
used in cookery and as a salad. |
