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The card of the mariner's compass; also, a circular card with radiating lines, used in other instruments.

red. [R.] Rouge et noir ( Etym: [F., red and black], a game at cards in which persons play against the owner of the bank; -- so called because the table around which the players sit has certain compartments colored red and black, upon which the stakes are deposited. Hoyle.

h a whirling or revolving motion, as the waltz, polka, etc. -- Round game, a game, as of cards, in which each plays on his own account. -- Round hand, a style of penmanship in which the letters are formed in nearly an upright position, and each separately distinct; -- distinguished from running hand. -- Round robin.…

To draw out into falkes; to card, as wool. Jamieson.

The act of trumping, especially when one has no card of the suit led.

auction pitch in which the nine (sancho) and five (pedro) of trumps are added as counting cards at their pip value, and the ten of trumps counts game.

esemble scales; as, the scaled dove. Scaled dove (Zoöl.), any American dove of the genus Scardafella. Its colored feather tips resemble scales.

A silk yarn or fabric made out of carded spun silk.

The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket.

To card coarsely; to run through the scribling machine.

The act or process of carding coarsely. Scribbing machine, the machine used for the first carding of wool or other fiber; -- called also scribbler.

A thin watery animal fluid, as synovial fluid and pericardial fluid.

ining more or less albumin, secreted by the serous membranes of the body, such as the pericardium and peritoneum. Blood serum, the pale yellowish fluid which exudes from the clot formed in the coagulation of the blood; the loquid portion of the blood, after removal of the blood corpuscles and the fibrin. -- Muscle ser…

The game of cards called also all fours, and old sledge. [U. S.]

. D. Kemp. To lay on the shelf, to lay aside as unnecessary or useless; to dismiss; to discard.

idnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country. Acts xxvii. 27. Shipman's card, the mariner's compass. [Obs.] Shak.

-- Show box, a box xontaining some object of curiosity carried round as a show. -- Show card, an advertising placard; also, a card for displaying samples. -- Show case, a gla -- Show glass, a glass which displays objects; a mirror. -- Show of hands, a raising of hands to indicate judgment; as, the vote was taken by…

nfuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of, as of the cards in a pack. A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind. Rombler.

In certain games at cards, as whist, a single card of any suit held at the deal by a player; as, to lead a singleton.

A small green and yellow European finch (Spinus spinus, or Carduelis spinus); -- called also aberdevine.