Definition of card

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Card (n.) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard..

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Straight :: Straight (superl.) Composed of cards which constitute a regular sequence, as the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten-spot; as, a straight hand; a straight flush..
Myocarditis :: Myocarditis (n.) Inflammation of the myocardium.
Triumph :: Triumph (n.) To play a trump card.
Trump :: Trump (v. t.) To play a trump card upon; to take with a trump card; as, she trumped the first trick..
Cheat :: Cheat (v. i.) To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards..
Mum-chance :: Mum-chance (n.) A game of hazard played with cards in silence.
Placard :: Placard (n.) A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later..
Cribbage :: Cribbage (v. t.) A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances..
Pinocle :: Pinocle (n.) A game at cards, played with forty-eight cards, being all the cards above the eight spots in two packs..
Split :: Split (v. i.) to divide one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value..
Cardiac :: Cardiac (n.) A medicine which excites action in the stomach; a cardial.
Rove :: Rove (v. t.) To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool..
Cartomancy :: Cartomancy (n.) The art of telling fortunes with cards.
Eminence :: Eminence (n.) A title of honor, especially applied to a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church..
Quinze :: Quinze (n.) A game at cards in which the object is to make fifteen points.
Aber-de-vine :: Aber-de-vine (n.) The European siskin (Carduelis spinus), a small green and yellow finch, related to the goldfinch..
Vingt Et Un :: Vingt et un () A game at cards, played by two or more persons. The fortune of each player depends upon obtaining from the dealer such cards that the sum of their pips, or spots, is twenty-one, or a number near to it..
Spoilful :: Spoilfive (n.) A certain game at cards in which, if no player wins three of the five tricks possible on any deal, the game is said to be spoiled..
Pass :: Pass (v. i.) To decline to take an optional action when it is one's turn, as to decline to bid, or to bet, or to play a card; in euchre, to decline to make the trump..
Bluff :: Bluff (v. t.) To deter (an opponent) from taking the risk of betting on his hand of cards, as the bluffer does by betting heavily on his own hand although it may be of less value..
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