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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.

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

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

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.

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