Band books

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

Card (?), v. t. 1.
To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding;
as, to card wool; to card a horse.

These card the short comb the longer
flakes.

Dyer.

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

This book [must] be carded and purged.

T. Shelton.

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

You card your beer, if you guests being to
be drunk. -- half small, half strong.

Greene.

&fist; 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.

Car"da*mine (?), n. [L.
cardamina, Gr. &?;: cf. F. cardamine.


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