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card vb.: to mix with something base 1H4 III. ii. 62 “he . . . carded his state, Mingled his royalty with capering fools.” ∥ The word was in use from 1590 to 1635 for mixing different kinds of drink.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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