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One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies.

A written or printed notice to be posted, as on a wall; a poster; a placard.

A game at cards, called "High, Low, Jack, and the Game."

algamate two races; to amalgamate one race with another. Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one. Burke.

A genus of aromatic plants. It includes species which bear cardamoms, and grains of paradise.

ither brain, skull, vertebræ, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc.

der. Tomlinson. -- Atmospheric line (Steam Engin.), the equilibrium line of an indicator card. Steam is expanded "down to the atmosphere" when its pressure is equal to that of the atmosphere. (See Indicator card.) -- Atmospheric pressure, the pressure exerted by the atmosphere, not merely downwards, but in every direc…

A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. R. F. Foster.

A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.

A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice. Some dress, some dance, some play, not to forget Your piquet parties, and your dear basset. Rowe.

A game at cards similar to loo. [Obs.] Wright.

ologne, Germany, in the 16th century. It has a bearded face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard.

A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green. [Also spelt beretta, biretta, etc.]

A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the hand, when declared, score points.

p or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill. She put up the bill in her parlor window. Dickens.

ith soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card.

cumber, Bitter gourd. (Bot.) See Colocynth. -- Bitter cress (Bot.), a plant of the genus Cardamine, esp. C. amara. -- Bitter earth (Min.), tale earth; calcined magnesia. -- Bitter principles (Chem.), a class of substances, extracted from vegetable products, having strong bitter taste but with no sharply defined chem…

A game at cards; poker. [U.S.] Bartlett.

aken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set.

ay booty, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose; to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in order to induce him to continue playing and victimize him afterwards. [Obs.] L'Estrange.