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An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so called because 100 points won the game. Nares.

Vexation; irritation of mind; rage. The cardinal in a chafe sent for him to Whitehall. Camden.

Divination by written paper or by cards.

To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.

olor, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough. Cornish chough (Her.), a bird represented black, with red feet, and beak; -- called also aylet and sea swallow.…

Five; the number five in dice or cards.

The lowest group of vertebrates; -- so called from the cirri around the mouth; the Leptocardia. See Amphioxus.

soups. Clary water, a composition of clary flowers with brandy, etc., formerly used as a cardiac.

See Card clothing, under 3d Card.

Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.

A coat card. See below. [Obs.] Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived. Massinger. Coat armor. See under Armor. -- Coat of arms (Her.), a translation of the French cotte d'armes, a garment of light material worn over the armor in the 15th and 16th centuries. This…

A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera.

One who is on an equality with another. In once he come to be a cardinal, He'll make his cap coequal with the crown. Shak.

as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops. The college of the cardinals. Shak. Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who, to secure their inheritance in the world to come, did cut off all their portion in this. Jer. Taylor.

The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.

In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played. Combining weight (Chem.), that proportional weight, usually referred to hydrogen as a standard, and for each element fixed and exact, by which an element unites with another to form a…

otton, etc., and separating the longer and more valuable fiber from the shorter. See also Carding machine, under Carding.

A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade. Hoyle. Chamber of commerce. See Chamber.

haucer. Azimuth compass. See under Azimuth. -- Beam compass. See under Beam. -- Compass card, the eircular card attached to the needles of a mariner's compass, on which are marked the thirty-two points or rhumbs. -- Compass dial, a small pocket compass fitted with a sundial to tell the hour of the day. -- Compass p…

The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.