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A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards. Our first cards were to Carabas House. Thackeray.

A genus of cruciferous plants, containing the lady's-smock, cuckooflower, bitter cress, meadow cress, etc.

A plant which prduces cardamoms, esp. Elettaria Cardamomum and several of Amommum.

A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often having a polished surface.

A case for visiting cards.

A quarter of a crown. [Obs.] The bunch of them were not worth a cardecu. Sir W. Scott.

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

The anterior or cardiac orifice of the stomach, where the esophagus enters it.

Pertaining to, resembling, or hear the heart; as, the cardiac arteries; the cardiac, or left, end of the stomach.

Cardiac.

A pain about the heart. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Cardiograph.

awing pain, or feeling of distress, referred to the region of the heart, accompanied with cardisc palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion.

A warm jacket of knit worsted with or without sleeves.

Of fundamental importance; preëminet; 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, et…

The office, rank, or dignity of a cardinal.

To exalt to the office of a cardinal. Sheldon.

The condition, dignity, of office of a cardinal

The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc., bycarding it. See the Note under Card, v. t.

The curve or tracing made by a cardiograph.