a. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'a priv. + &unr_; heart. ] Without a heart; as, an acardiac fetus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Belonging to, or resembling, a family, or order, of plants of which the cashew tree is the type, and the species of sumac are well known examples. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or derived from, the cashew nut; as, anacardic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; similar to + &unr_; heart; -- the fruit of this plant being thought to resemble the heart of a bird. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants including the cashew tree. See Cashew. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Zool.) A South American bird of the flycatcher family. (Tityra inquisetor). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. blanc white. ] A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of which is partly blanched before it is woven. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A mnemonic word. ] 1. (Logic) A form of syllogism of which the first and third propositions are particular negatives, and the middle term a universal affirmative. [ 1913 Webster ]

Baroko and Bocardo have been stumbling blocks to the logicians. Bowen. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A prison; -- originally the name of the old north gate in Oxford, which was used as a prison. [ Eng. ] Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] A litter on which a person may be carried. [ Obs. ] Coigrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perh. fr. Brocardica, Brocardicorum opus, a collection of ecclesiastical canons by Burkhard, Bishop of Worms, called, by the Italians and French, Brocard. ] An elementary principle or maximum; a short, proverbial rule, in law, ethics, or metaphysics. [ 1913 Webster ]

The legal brocard, “Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, ” is a rule not more applicable to other witness than to consciousness. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. carte, fr. L. charta paper, Gr. &unr_; a leaf of paper. Cf. Chart. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our first cards were to Carabas House. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the quartere that they know
I' the shipman's card. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. An indicator card. See under Indicator. [ 1913 Webster ]

Business card, a card on which is printed an advertisement or business address. --
Card basket (a) A basket to hold visiting cards left by callers. (b) A basket made of cardboard. --
Card catalogue. See Catalogue. --
Card rack, a rack or frame for holding and displaying business or visiting card. --
Card table, a table for use inplaying cards, esp. one having a leaf which folds over. --
On the cards, likely to happen; foretold and expected but not yet brought to pass; -- a phrase of fortune tellers that has come into common use; also, according to the programme. --
Playing card, cards used in playing games; specifically, the cards cards used playing which and other games of chance, and having each pack divided onto four kinds or suits called hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades. The full or whist pack contains fifty-two cards. --
To have the cards in one's own hands, to have the winning cards; to have the means of success in an undertaking. --
To play one's cards well, to make no errors; to act shrewdly. --
To play snow one's cards, to expose one's plants to rivals or foes. --
To speak by the card, to speak from information and definitely, not by guess as in telling a ship's bearing by the compass card. --
Visiting card, a small card bearing the name, and sometimes the address, of the person presenting it. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Carded; p. pr. & vb. n. Carding. ] To play at cards; to game. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. carde teasel, the head of a thistle, card, from L. carduus, cardus, thistle, fr. carere to card. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Card clothing, strips of wire-toothed card used for covering the cylinders of carding machines. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

These card the short comb the longer flakes. Dyer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To clean or clear, as if by using a card. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This book [ must ] be carded and purged. T. Shelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

You card your beer, if you guests being to be drunk. -- half small, half strong. Greene. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the manufacture of wool, cotton, etc., the process of carding disentangles and collects together all the fibers, of whatever length, and thus differs from combing, in which the longer fibers only are collected, while the short straple is combed away. See Combing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cardamina, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. cardamine. ] (Bot.) A genus of cruciferous plants, containing the lady's-smock, cuckooflower, bitter cress, meadow cress, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cardamomun, Gr. karda`mwmon ] 1. The aromatic fruit, or capsule with its seeds, of several plants of the Ginger family growing in the East Indies and elsewhere, and much used as a condiment, and in medicine. [ Also spelled cardamum. ]
Syn. -- cardamon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A rhizomatous herb which produces cardamoms, esp. Elettaria Cardamomum and several species of Amomum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as cardamom. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often having a polished surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A case for visiting cards. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Corrupt, from F. quart d'écu. ] A quarter of a crown. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The bunch of them were not worth a cardecu. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which cards wool flax, etc. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; heart, or upper orifice of the stomach. ] (Anat.) (a) The heart. (b) The anterior or cardiac orifice of the stomach, where the esophagus enters it. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cardiacus, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; heart: cf. F. cardiaque. ] 1. (Anat.) Pertaining to, resembling, or hear the heart; as, the cardiac arteries; the cardiac, or left, end of the stomach. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cardiac passion (Med.) cardialgia; heartburn. [ Archaic ] --
Cardiac wheel. (Mach.) See Heart wheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) A medicine which excites action in the stomach; a cardial. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Cardiac. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pain about the heart. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Cardiograph. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ NL. cardialgia, fr. Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; heart + &unr_; pain: cf. F. cardialgie. ] (Med.) A burning or gnawing pain, or feeling of distress, referred to the region of the heart, accompanied with cardiac palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion. [ 1913 Webster ]

a slightly bow-legged variety of corgi having rounded ears and a long tail.
Syn. -- Cardigan Welsh corgi. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

[ From the Earl of Cardigan, who was famous in the Crimean campaign of 1854-55. ] 1. A warm jacket of knit worsted with or without sleeves, especially a knitted jacket with sleeves that is fastened up the front with buttons or a zipper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of somewhat heart-shaped sand-burrowing bivalve mollusks.
Syn. -- family Cardiidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. cardinalis, fr. cardo the hinge of a door, that on which a thing turns or depends: cf. F. cardinal. ] Of fundamental importance; preëminent; superior; chief; principal. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cardinal intersections of the zodiac. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Impudence is now a cardinal virtue. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cardinal numbers, the numbers one, two, three, etc., in distinction from first, second, third, etc., which are called ordinal numbers. --
Cardinal points (a) (Geol.) The four principal points of the compass, or intersections of the horizon with the meridian and the prime vertical circle, north, south east, and west. (b) (Astrol.) The rising and setting of the sun, the zenith and nadir. --
Cardinal signs (Astron.) Aries, Libra, Cancer, and Capricorn. --
Cardinal teeth (Zool.), the central teeth of bivalve shell. See Bivalve. --
Cardinal veins (Anat.), the veins in vertebrate embryos, which run each side of the vertebral column and returm the blood to the heart. They remain through life in some fishes. --
Cardinal virtues, preëminent virtues; among the ancients, prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. --
Cardinal winds, winds which blow from the cardinal points due north, south, east, or west. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. carinal, It. cardinale, LL. cardinalis (ecclesiæ Romanæ). See Cardinal, a. ] 1. (R. C. Ch.) One of the ecclesiastical princes who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college. [ 1913 Webster ]

The clerics of the supreme Chair are called Cardinals, as undoubtedly adhering more nearly to the hinge by which all things are moved. Pope Leo IX. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The cardinals are appointed by the pope. Since the time of Sixtus V., their number can never exceed seventy (six of episcopal rank, fifty priests, fourteen deacons), and the number of cardinal priests and deacons is seldom full. When the papel chair is vacant a pope is elected by the college of cardinals from among themselves. The cardinals take precedence of all dignitaries except the pope. The principal parts of a cardinal's costume are a red cassock, a rochet, a short purple mantle, and a red hat with a small crown and broad brim, with cords and tessels of a special pattern hanging from it. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A woman's short cloak with a hood. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where's your cardinal! Make haste. Lloyd. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Mulled red wine. Hotten. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. the cardinal bird, also called the northern cardinal. [ PJC ]

Cardinal bird, or
Cardinal grosbeak (Zool.), an American song bird (Cardinalis cardinalis, or Cardinalis Virginianus), of the family Fringillidæ, or finches of which the male has a bright red plumage, and both sexes have a high, pointed crest on its head; -- it is also called the northern cardinal or eastern cardinal. The males have loud and musical notes resembling those of a fife. Other related species are also called cardinal birds. --
Cardinal flower (Bot.), an herbaceous plant (Lobelia cardinalis) bearing brilliant red flowers of much beauty. --
Cardinal red, a color like that of a cardinal's cassock, hat, etc.; a bright red, darker than scarlet, and between scarlet and crimson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. cardinalat, LL. cardinalatus. ] The office, rank, or dignity of a cardinal. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To exalt to the office of a cardinal. Sheldon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition, dignity, of office of a cardinal [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc., by carding it. See the Note under Card, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A roll of wool or other fiber as it comes from the carding machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Carding engine,
Carding machine, a machine for carding cotton, wool, or other fiber, by subjecting it to the action of cylinders, or drums covered with wire-toothed cards, revolving nearly in contact with each other, at different rates of speed, or in opposite directions. The staple issues in soft sheets, or in slender rolls called slivers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. kardi`a heart + -gram. ] (Physiol.) Any instrumental record made of heart activity, especially the curve or tracing made by a cardiograph. Sometimes used synonymously with electrocardiogram. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. [ Gr. kardi`a heart + -graph. ] (Med.) An instrument which, when placed in contact with the chest, will register graphically the comparative duration and intensity of the heart's movements. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to, or produced by, a cardiograph. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Description of the heart. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Physiol.) Examination of heart activity using a cardiograph. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. kardio-eidh`s heart-shaped; kardi`a heart + e'i^dos shape. ] (Math.) An algebraic curve, so called from its resemblance to a heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physiol.) Checking or arresting the heart's action. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. kardi`a heart + -ology. ] The science which treats of the heart and its functions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. kardi`a heart + -metry. ] (Med.) Measurement of the heart, as by percussion or auscultation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An emergency procedure to revive heart and lung function in persons whose heart has apparently stopped beating, involving forced respiration, periodic pressure on the heart by pushing on the chest, and sometimes electrical or mechanical equipment. It is often referred to by the acronym CPR. [ PJC ]

adj. Of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions; as, cardiopulmonary resuscitation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. kardi`a heart + sclerosis. ] Induration of the heart, caused by development of fibrous tissue in the cardiac muscle. [ Obsolescent ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

prop. n. A genus of tendril-climbing herbs or shrubs whose seeds have a white heart-shaped spot.
Syn. -- genus Cardiospermum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A combination of cardiograph and sphygmograph. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Of or pertaining to or involving the heart and blood vessels; as, cardiovascular conditioning. [ WordNet 1.5 ]