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Card | Card \Card\, v. t. 1. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse. [1913 Webster] These card the short comb the longer flakes. --Dyer. [1913 Webster] 2. To clean or clear, as if by using a card. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] This book [must] be carded and purged. --T. Shelton. [1913 Webster] 3. To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] You card your beer, if you guests being to be drunk. -- half small, half strong. --Greene. [1913 Webster] 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}. [1913 Webster] |
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