1. Dressed with a card, or by a carding machine.
1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, ccclxx. 119. Stuffe it with carded wolle or cotton.
1858. Longf., M. Standish, III. 44. The carded wool like a snow-drift Piled at her knee.
2. Supplied or furnished with a card.
1521. Test. Ebor. (Surtees), V. 140. My cardyd and my best compass.
† 3. Mixed, or adulterated by mixing. Also fig.
1596. Nashe, Saffron Walden, 99. Being constrained to betake him to carded ale.
a. 1625. Fletcher, Wom. Prize, IV. iv. (R.). Mine is … Such a strange carded cunningness.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 46. To be drunk either alone or Carded with some other Beer.
