card —
“The shipman's,”
MACBETH, i. 3. 17.
“The mariner's compass. Properly, the paper on which the
points of the wind are marked.”
Nares's Gloss.
;
“Not the card of the mariner's compass, but what we now call
a chart.”
Hunter's New Illust. of
Shakespeare, vol. ii. p. 167
(where Hackluyt's Virginia Richly Valued, 1609, and
Sir H. Mainwaring's Seaman's Dictionary, 1670, are quoted).
“A Sea-card, charta
Marina.”
Coles's Lat. and Engl.
Dict.
(I find in Sylvester's Du Bartas,
“Sure, if my Card and
Compasse doe not fail,
W'are neer the Port.”
The Triumph of Faith, p. 256, ed. 1641. where the original has “mon Quadrant et ma Carte marine.”)
W'are neer the Port.”
The Triumph of Faith, p. 256, ed. 1641. where the original has “mon Quadrant et ma Carte marine.”)
