These card the short comb the longer flakes. --Dyer.
2. To clean or clear, as if by using a card. [Obs.]
This book [must] be carded and purged. --T. Shelton.
3. To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
[Obs.]
You card your beer, if you guests being to be drunk.
-- half small, half strong. --Greene.
Note: In the manufacture of wool, cotton, etc., the process
of carding disentangles and collects together all the
fibers, of whatever length, and thus differs from
combing, in which the longer fibers only are collected,
while the short straple is combed away. See {Combing}.
Our first cards were to Carabas House. --Thackeray.
2. 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.
3. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the
dial or face of the mariner's compass.
All the quartere that they know I' the shipman's
card. --Shak.
4. (Weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for
warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a
loom. See {Jacquard}.
5. An indicator card. See under {Indicator}.
{Business card}, a card on which is printed an advertisement
or business address.
{Card basket}
(a) A basket to hold visiting cards left by callers.
(b) A basket made of cardboard.
{Card catalogue}. See {Catalogue}.
{Card rack}, a rack or frame for holding and displaying
business or visiting card.
{Card table}, a table for use inplaying cards, esp. one
having a leaf which folds over.
{On the cards}, likely to happen; foretold and expected but
not yet brought to pass; -- a phrase of fortune tellers
that has come into common use; also, according to the
programme.
{Playing card}, cards used in playing games; specifically,
the cards cards used playing which and other games of
chance, and having each pack divided onto four kinds or
suits called hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades. The full
or whist pack contains fifty-two cards.
{To have the cards in one's own hands}, to have the winning
cards; to have the means of success in an undertaking.
{To play one's cards well}, to make no errors; to act
shrewdly.
{To play snow one's cards}, to expose one's plants to rivals
or foes.
{To speak by the card}, to speak from information and
definitely, not by guess as in telling a ship's bearing by
the compass card.
{Visiting card}, a small card bearing the name, and sometimes
the address, of the person presenting it.
2. A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a
carding machine.
{Card clothing}, strips of wire-toothed card used for
covering the cylinders of carding machines.