Card noun [ French carte , from Latin charta paper, Greek ... a leaf of paper. Confer Chart .]
1. A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card ; a visiting card ; a card of invitation; plural a game played with cards.

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.

Card intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Carded ; present participle & verbal noun Carding .] To play at cards; to game. Johnson.

Card noun [ French carde teasel, the head of a thistle, card, from Latin carduus , cardus , thistle, from carere to card.]

1. 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.

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.

Card transitive verb
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. [ Obsolete]

This book [ must] be carded and purged.
T. Shelton.

3. To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article. [ Obsolete]

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 noun [ Latin cardamina , Greek ...: confer French cardamine .] (Botany) A genus of cruciferous plants, containing the lady's-smock, cuckooflower, bitter cress, meadow cress, etc.

Cardamom (kär"dȧ*mŭm) noun [ Latin cardamomun , Greek 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. (Botany) A plant which produces cardamoms, esp. Elettaria Cardamomum and several species of Amomum .

Cardboard (kärd"bōrd`) noun A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often having a polished surface.

Cardcase (kärd"kās`) noun A case for visiting cards.

Cardecu (kär"de*ku) noun [ Corrupt, from French quart d'écu .] A quarter of a crown. [ Obsolete]

The bunch of them were not worth a cardecu .
Sir W. Scott.

Carder noun One who, or that which cards wool flax, etc. Shak.

Cardia noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... 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 adjective [ Latin cardiacus , Greek ... , from ... heart: confer French cardiaque .]
1. (Anat.) Pertaining to, resembling, or hear the heart; as, the cardiac arteries; the cardiac , or left, end of the stomach.

2. (Medicine) Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant.

Cardiac passion (Medicine) cardialgia; heartburn. [ Archaic] -- Cardiac wheel . (Machinery) See Heart wheel .

Cardiac noun (Medicine) A medicine which excites action in the stomach; a cardial.

Cardiacal adjective Cardiac.

Cardiacle noun A pain about the heart. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Cardiagraph noun See Cardiograph .

Cardialgla, Cardialgy noun [ New Latin cardialgia , from Greek ...; ... heart + ... pain: confer French cardialgie .] (Medicine) 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 . [ From the Earl of Cardigan , who was famous in the Crimean campaign of 1854- 55.] A warm jacket of knit worsted with or without sleeves.

Cardinal adjective [ Latin cardinalis , from cardo the hinge of a door, that on which a thing turns or depends: confer French cardinal .] Of fundamental importance; preëminent; superior; chief; principal.

The cardinal intersections of the zodiac.
Sir T. Browne.

Impudence is now a cardinal virtue.
Drayton.

But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye.
Shak.

Cardinal numbers , the numbers one, two, three, etc., in distinction from first , second , third , etc., which are called ordinal numbers . -- Cardinal points (a) (Geol.) The four principal points of the compass, or intersections of the horizon with the meridian and the prime vertical circle, north, south east, and west. (b) (Astrol.) The rising and setting of the sun, the zenith and nadir. -- Cardinal signs (Astron.) Aries, Libra, Cancer, and Capricorn. -- Cardinal teeth (Zoology) , the central teeth of bivalve shell. See Bivalve . -- Cardinal veins (Anat.) , the veins in vertebrate embryos, which run each side of the vertebral column and returm the blood to the heart. They remain through life in some fishes. -- Cardinal virtues , preëminent virtues; among the ancients, prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. -- Cardinal winds , winds which blow from the cardinal points due north, south, east, or west.

Cardinal noun [ French carinal , Italian cardinale , Late Latin cardinalis (ecclesiæ Romanæ). See Cardinal , adjective ]
1. (R. C. Ch.) One of the ecclesiastical princes who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college.

The clerics of the supreme Chair are called Cardinals , as undoubtedly adhering more nearly to the hinge by which all things are moved.
Pope Leo IX.

» The cardinals are appointed by the pope. Since the time of Sixtus V., their number can never exceed seventy (six of episcopal rank, fifty priests, fourteen deacons), and the number of cardinal priests and deacons is seldom full. When the papel chair is vacant a pope is elected by the college of cardinals from among themselves. The cardinals take precedence of all dignitaries except the pope. The principal parts of a cardinal's costume are a red cassock, a rochet, a short purple mantle, and a red hat with a small crown and broad brim, with cords and tessels of a special pattern hanging from it.

2. A woman's short cloak with a hood.

Where's your cardinal ! Make haste.
Lloyd.

3. Mulled red wine. Hotten.

Cardinal bird , or Cardinal grosbeak (Zoology) , an American song bird ( Cardinalis cardinalis , or C. Virginianus ), of the family Fringillidæ , or finches having a bright red plumage, and a high, pointed crest on its head. The males have loud and musical notes resembling those of a fife. Other related species are also called cardinal birds . -- Cardinal flower (Botany) , an herbaceous plant ( Lobelia cardinalis ) bearing brilliant red flowers of much beauty. -- Cardinal red , a color like that of a cardinal's cassock, hat, etc.; a bright red, darker than scarlet, and between scarlet and crimson.

Cardinalate noun [ Confer French cardinalat , Late Latin cardinalatus .] The office, rank, or dignity of a cardinal.

Cardinalize transitive verb To exalt to the office of a cardinal. Sheldon.

Cardinalship noun The condition, dignity, of office of a cardinal

Carding adjective
1. The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc., by carding it. See the Note under Card , transitive verb

2. A roll of wool or other fiber as it comes from the carding machine.

Carding engine , Carding machine , a machine for carding cotton, wool, or other fiber, by subjecting it to the action of cylinders, or drum covered with wire-toothed cards, revoling nearly in contact with each other, at different rates of speed, or in opposite directions. The staple issues in soft sheets, or in slender rolls called sivers .

Cardiogram noun [ Greek ... heart + -gram .] (Physiol.) The curve or tracing made by a cardiograph.

Cardiograph noun [ Greek kardi`a heart + -graph .] (Medicine) An instrument which, when placed in contact with the chest, will register graphically the comparative duration and intensity of the heart's movements.

Cardiographic adjective (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to, or produced by, a cardiograph.

Cardiography noun
1. Description of the heart.

2. (Physiol.) Examination by the cardiograph.

Cardioid noun [ Greek kardio-eidh`s heart-shaped; kardi`a heart + e'i^dos shape.] (Math.) An algebraic curve, so called from its resemblance to a heart.

Cardioinhibitory adjective (Physiol.) Checking or arresting the heart's action.

Cardiolgy noun [ Greek kardi`a heart + -ology .] The science which treats of the heart and its functions.

Cardiometry noun [ Greek ... heart + -metry .] (Medicine) Measurement of the heart, as by percussion or auscultation.

Cardiosclerosis noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... heart + sclerosis .] Induration of the heart, caused by development of fibrous tissue in the cardiac muscle.

Cardiosphygmograph noun A combination of cardiograph and sphygmograph.

Carditis noun [ New Latin , from Greek kardi`a heart + -itis : confer French cardite .] (Med) Inflammation of the fleshy or muscular substance of the heart. See Endocarditis and Pericarditis . Dunglison.

Cardo (kär"do) noun ; plural Cardines .) [ Latin , a hinge.] (Zoology) (a) The basal joint of the maxilla in insects. (b) The hinge of a bivalve shell.

Cardol (kär"dōl) noun [ New Latin Ana card ium generic name of the cashew + Latin oleum oil.] (Chemistry) A yellow oily liquid, extracted from the shell of the cashew nut.

Cardoon (kär*dōn") noun [ French cardon . The same word as French cardon thistle, from Latin carduus , cardus , Late Latin cardo . See 3d Card .] (Botany) A large herbaceous plant ( Cynara Cardunculus ) related to the artichoke; -- used in cookery and as a salad.

Care (kâr) noun [ Anglo-Saxon caru , cearu ; akin to Old Saxon kara sorrow, Goth. kara , OHG chara , lament, and perhaps to Greek gh^rys voice. Not akin to cure . Confer Chary .]
1. A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.
Shak.

2. Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity.

The care of all the churches.
2 Cor. xi. 28.

Him thy care must be to find.
Milton.

Perplexed with a thousand cares .
Shak.

3. Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness; watchfulness; as, take care ; have a care .

I thank thee for thy care and honest pains.
Shak.

4. The object of watchful attention or anxiety.

Right sorrowfully mourning her bereaved cares .
Spenser.

Syn. -- Anxiety; solicitude; concern; caution; regard; management; direction; oversight. -- Care , Anxiety , Solicitude , Concern . These words express mental pain in different degress. Care belongs primarily to the intellect, and becomes painful from overburdened thought. Anxiety denotes a state of distressing uneasiness fron the dread of evil. Solicitude expresses the same feeling in a diminished degree. Concern is opposed to indifference , and implies exercise of anxious thought more or less intense. We are careful about the means, solicitous and anxious about the end; we are solicitous to obtain a good, anxious to avoid an evil.

Care intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Cared ; present participle & verbal noun Caring .] [ Anglo-Saxon cearian . See Care , noun ] To be anxious or solicitous; to be concerned; to have regard or interest; -- sometimes followed by an objective of measure.

I would not care a pin, if the other three were in.
Shak.

Master, carest thou not that we perish?
Mark. iv. 38.

To care for . (a) To have under watchful attention; to take care of. (b) To have regard or affection for; to like or love.

He cared not for the affection of the house.
Tennyson.

Careen transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Careened ; present participle & verbal noun Careening .] [ Old French cariner , French caréner , from Old French carène , the bottom of a ship, keel, from Latin carina .] (Nautical) To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel.

Careen intransitive verb To incline to one side, or lie over, as a ship when sailing on a wind; to be off the keel.

Careenage noun [ Confer French carénage .] (Nautical) (a) Expense of careening ships. (b) A place for careening.

Career noun [ French carrière race course, high road, street, from Latin carrus wagon. See Car .]
1. A race course: the ground run over.

To go back again the same career .
Sir P. Sidney.

2. A running; full speed; a rapid course.

When a horse is running in his full career .
Wilkins.

3. General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character; as, Washington's career as a soldier.

An impartial view of his whole career .
Macaulay.

4. (Falconry) The flight of a hawk.

Career intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Careered 3; present participle & verbal noun Careering ] To move or run rapidly.

Careering gayly over the curling waves.
W. Irving.

Careful (kâr"ful) adjective [ Anglo-Saxon cearful .]
1. Full of care; anxious; solicitous. [ Archaic]

Be careful [ Rev. Ver. "anxious"] for nothing.
Phil. iv. 6.

The careful plowman doubting stands.
Milton.

2. Filling with care or solicitude; exposing to concern, anxiety, or trouble; painful.

The careful cold beginneth for to creep.
Spenser.

By Him that raised me to this careful height.
Shak.

3. Taking care; giving good heed; watchful; cautious; provident; not indifferent, heedless, or reckless; -- often followed by of , for , or the infinitive; as, careful of money; careful to do right.

Thou hast been careful for us with all this care.
2. Kings iv, 13.

What could a careful father more have done?
Dryden.

Syn. -- Anxious; solicitous; provident; thoughtful; cautious; circumspect; heedful; watchful; vigilant.

Carefully adverb In a careful manner.

Carefulness noun Quality or state of being careful.

Careless adjective [ Anglo-Saxon cearleás .]
1. Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted. Spenser.

Sleep she as sound as careless infancy.
Shak.

2. Having no care; not taking ordinary or proper care; negligent; unconcerned; heedless; inattentive; unmindful; regardless.

My brother was too careless of his charge.
Shak.

He grew careless of himself.
Steele.

3. Without thought or purpose; without due care; without attention to rule or system; unstudied; inconsiderate; spontaneous; rash; as, a careless throw; a careless expression.

He framed the careless rhyme.
Beattie.

4. Not receiving care; uncared for. [ R.]

Their many wounds and careless harms.
Spenser.

Syn. -- Negligent; heedless; thoughtless; unthinking; inattentive; incautious; remiss; supine; forgetful; regardless; inconsiderate; listless.

Carelessly adverb In a careless manner.

Carelessness noun The quality or state of being careless; heedlessness; negligence; inattention.