card
/kɑɹd/ noun A1- A playing card.
- Any game using playing cards; a card game. · He played cards with his friends.
- A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.) · The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy.· He accused them of playing the race card.
- Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
- A bank card.
- Any electronic payment (rather than a cash payment using notes, bills or coins). · Cashier: "Cash or card? Customer: "I'm paying on my phone, so card."
- Paper that is thicker and more durable than normal writing or printing paper, but thinner and more flexible than paperboard, used for postcards, playing cards, etc.; card stock. · Do you have any card? I want to make a poster.
- An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
Plural cards
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The card he had meant to lay upon my body was lying beside his own.
So does the card on the body, which might have been prepared in the house.
upon the card by the dead body might stand for Vermissa Valley, or that this very valley which sends forth emissaries of murder may be that Valley of Fear of which we have heard.
According to the story given to us, the assassin had less than a minute after the murder had been committed to take that ring, which was under another ring, from the dead man’s finger, to replace the other ring—a thing which he would surely never have done—and to put that singular card beside his victim.
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