Card

1. n. An indicator card. See under Indicator.
2. n. 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.
3. n. 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.
4. n. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner’s compass.
5. n. A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard.
6. v. t. To clean or clear, as if by using a card.

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Carded

1. imp. & p. p. of Card

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Carding

1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Card
2. a. The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc., by carding it. See the Note under Card, v. t.

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Carbonizing

1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Carbonize

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Carbonize

1. v. t. To impregnate or combine with carbon, as in making steel by cementation.
2. v. t. To convert (an animal or vegetable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.

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Carbonometer

1. n. An instrument for detecting and measuring the amount of carbon which is present, or more esp. the amount of carbon dioxide, by its action on limewater or by other means.

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Carbonyl

1. n. The radical (CO)”, occuring, always combined, in many compounds, as the aldehydes, the ketones, urea, carbonyl chloride, etc.

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Carbostyril

1. n. A white crystalline substance, C9H6N.OH, of acid properties derived from one of the amido cinnamic acids.

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Carboxide

1. n. A compound of carbon and oxygen, as carbonyl, with some element or radical; as, potassium carboxide.

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Carboxyl

1. n. The complex radical, CO.OH, regarded as the essential and characteristic constituent which all oxygen acids of carbon (as formic, acetic, benzoic acids, etc.) have in common; — called also oxatyl.

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