1. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse.
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.
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.
Cardamine
(Car"da*mine) n. [L. cardamina, Gr. : cf. F. cardamine.] (Bot.) A genus of cruciferous
plants, containing the lady's-smock, cuckooflower, bitter cress, meadow cress, etc.
Cardamom
(Car"da*mom) n. [L. cardamomun, Gr. karda`mwmon]
1. 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.
2. (Bot.) A plant which produces cardamoms, esp. Elettaria Cardamomum and several species of
Amomum.
Cardboard
(Card"board`) n. A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often
having a polished surface.
Cardcase
(Card"case`) n. A case for visiting cards.
Cardecu
(Car"de*cu) n. [Corrupt, from F. quart d'écu.] A quarter of a crown. [Obs.]
The bunch of them were not worth a cardecu.
Sir W. Scott.
Carder
(Card"er) n. One who, or that which cards wool flax, etc. Shak.
Cardia
(Car"di*a) n. [NL., fr. Gr. heart, or upper orifice of the stomach.] (Anat.) (a) The heart. (b)
The anterior or cardiac orifice of the stomach, where the esophagus enters it.
Cardiac
(Car"di*ac) a. [L. cardiacus, Gr. , fr. heart: cf. F. cardiaque.]
1. (Anat.) Pertaining to, resembling, or hear the heart; as, the cardiac arteries; the cardiac, or left, end
of the stomach.
2. (Med.) Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant.
Cardiac passion (Med.) cardialgia; heartburn. [Archaic] — Cardiac wheel. (Mach.) See Heart wheel.
Cardiac
(Car"di*ac) n. (Med.) A medicine which excites action in the stomach; a cardial.
Cardiacal
(Car*di"a*cal) a. Cardiac.
Cardiacle
(Car"di*a*cle) n. A pain about the heart. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Cardiagraph
(Car"di*a*graph) n. See Cardiograph.
