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Person who uses skill and deception to win at poker or other card games
A card sharp (also card shark, sometimes hyphenated or spelled as a single word) is a person who uses skill or deception to win at card games (such as
Card_sharp
Card used for playing various card games
A playing card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic that
Playing_card
Painting by Louis-Léopold Boilly
The Card Sharp on the Boulevard is an oil on panel genre painting by the French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly, from 1806. It is held in the collection of
The Card Sharp on the Boulevard
The_Card_Sharp_on_the_Boulevard
c. 1638 painting by Georges de La Tour
The Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds is an oil-on-canvas painting produced c. 1636–1638 by the French artist Georges de La Tour. It is now in the Louvre
The Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds
The_Card_Sharp_with_the_Ace_of_Diamonds
A person who practices card manipulation may be called a card sharp, card shark, or card mechanic. Dealing Bottom dealing Second dealing Shuffling Faro
List of card manipulation techniques
List_of_card_manipulation_techniques
Season of television series
school teacher, Sarah Bunting, and Tom begin a friendship. Sampson, a card sharp and previous guest at Downton, steals a letter written by the Prince of
Downton_Abbey_series_4
Set of paintings by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge
created between 1894 and 1910. Most of the paintings depict dogs playing the card game poker, and a smaller number show dogs performing other human actions
Dogs_Playing_Poker
1998 film by Guy Ritchie
heist involving a confident young card sharp who loses £500,000 to a powerful crime lord in a rigged game of three-card brag, prompting him to pay off his
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lock,_Stock_and_Two_Smoking_Barrels
Ancient Greek marble statue of Aphrodite
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Venus_de_Milo
Playing card
face card in decks of French-suited playing cards, depicting a king of the hearts (♥) suit and associated with the King of Franks Charlemagne. The card is
King_of_hearts
British actor, writer, producer and director
1969) is an English actor and filmmaker. His roles include Eddie the card sharp in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Scabior in Harry Potter
Nick_Moran
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up Sharp or sharp in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sharp or SHARP may refer to: SHARP (helmet ratings) (Safety Helmet Assessment and Rating Programme)
Sharp
Ancient Greek sculpture
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Winged_Victory_of_Samothrace
Playing card
The queen of spades (Q♠) is a face card in decks of French-suited playing cards and Tarot, depicting a queen of the spades (♠) suit and associated with
Queen_of_spades
Painting by Leonardo da Vinci
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Mona_Lisa
1987 home computer
MC68882, with 6 MB RAM Sound card: Sharp CZ-6BM1: MIDI card System Sacom SX-68M: MIDI card System Sacom SX-68M-2: MIDI card Marcury-Unit: 16-bit stereo
X68000
Romani-American con artist (c. 1837 – 1877)
was an English-born Romanichal confidence artist, riverboat gambler and card sharp in Canada and the United States. He has been described by historians,
Canada_Bill_Jones
Babylonian legal text
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Code_of_Hammurabi
English magician, actor and card sharp
Simon Lovell (born 1957) is an English comedy magician, actor, and card sharp, who specialises in magic using playing cards. Lovell was a regular performer
Simon_Lovell
Book by S. W. Erdnase
manual of card sharps, the book is considered to be one of the most influential works on magic or conjuring with cards. The Expert at the Card Table covers
The_Expert_at_the_Card_Table
2017 film by Aaron Sorkin
James as Brad Marion, a hedge fund manager Bill Camp as Harlan Eustice, a card sharp who gets in over his head Graham Greene as Judge Dustin Foxman Justin
Molly's_Game
1830 painting by Eugène Delacroix
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Liberty_Leading_the_People
1799 painting by Jacques-Louis David
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The Intervention of the Sabine Women
The_Intervention_of_the_Sabine_Women
1965 film directed by Sergio Leone
from a "profession to be ashamed of", one with a "(ranking) lower than a card sharp on the Western scale of worthwhile citizens", to one of heroic respectability
For_a_Few_Dollars_More
Two paintings by Leonardo da Vinci
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Virgin_of_the_Rocks
Painting by Leonardo da Vinci
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Saint John the Baptist (Leonardo)
Saint_John_the_Baptist_(Leonardo)
1973 caper film directed by George Roy Hill
not the important thing: what makes it are the quirky soundtrack, the card-sharp dialogue and two superduperstars at their superduperstarriest." A deluxe
The_Sting
Painting by Théodore Géricault
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The_Raft_of_the_Medusa
American television sitcom (1965–1971)
(RAF) Corporal Peter Newkirk, the group's con man, magician, pickpocket, card sharp, forger, bookie, tailor, lock picker, and safe cracker. He is a skilled
Hogan's_Heroes
1784 painting by Jacques-Louis David
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Oath_of_the_Horatii
Japanese multimedia franchise
High Card (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese multimedia franchise created by Homura Kawamoto, Hikaru Muno, and TMS Entertainment. It consists of a manga
High_Card
Chinese martial art
Chow's apprentice beats an overweight card sharp in a "fixed" high-stakes poker game. When taunted, the card sharp jumps onto the playing table and defeats
Northern_Praying_Mantis
1807 painting by Jacques-Louis David
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The_Coronation_of_Napoleon
Painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
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Grande_Odalisque
Polish-born British-Canadian adventurer
the Western provinces, making a living as a carnival barker, gambler, card sharp, pickpocket, pimp, and successful real estate broker. Some of his activities
Two-Gun_Cohen
Art museum in Paris, France
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Louvre
Legal methods used to gain an advantage while gambling
knowledgeable player can gain an advantage at a number of games. Card games have been won by card sharps for centuries. Some slot machines and lotteries with progressive
Advantage_gambling
bombing that killed her husband. She served as fem fatale and had skills in sharp shooting and voice mimicry. Jim recruited her initially to catch Tom Copperfield's
List of Mission: Impossible (TV series) characters
List_of_Mission:_Impossible_(TV_series)_characters
English magician
pp. 479–486, and supplement Vol XIV Gordon, Bryony (27 August 2004). "Card Sharp". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 28 May 2008. Retrieved
Drummond_Money-Coutts
1998 Indian film
living. Vaishali has no relatives except one brother, an unscrupulous card-sharp named Gajendra who lives off his sister's earnings. Vaishali seduces the
Bandhan_(1998_film)
American actor (1907–1994)
seventh season ("Lucy Takes a Cruise to Havana"). He played "Don Carlos", a card sharp on the episode, "The Honorable Don Charlie Story" of NBC's Wagon Train
Cesar_Romero
Procedure used to randomize a deck of playing cards
Britland, David; Gazzo (2004) [2004]. Phantoms of the Card Table: Confessions of a Card Sharp (1st ed.). New York: Four Walls Eight Windows. p. 109.
Shuffling
1932 film
three years after the stock market crash of 1929, the plot focuses on a card sharp and gambling cheat and the street-wise librarian with whom he develops
No_Man_of_Her_Own_(1932_film)
Game using playing cards as the primary device
It is not until 1408 that the first card game is described in a document about the exploits of two card sharps; although it is evidently very simple
Card_game
(c. 1837–1877), English-born confidence artist, riverboat gambler and card sharp in Canada and the United States Priscilla Kelly (born 1997) – professional
List_of_Romanichals
American actor (1907–1991)
playing a Cavalry scout, alongside Robert Taylor. The same year he played a card sharp and gun dealer in Anthony Mann's Winchester '73. He also had a turn as
John_McIntire
Painting by Paolo Veronese
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The Wedding at Cana (Veronese)
The_Wedding_at_Cana_(Veronese)
Moabite stele commemorating Mesha's victory over Israel (c. 840 BCE)
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Mesha_Stele
1971 Indian film
very young age, and grows up with Master (Jeevan), a criminal don and card-sharp, who would like Raja to continue working with him on a commission basis
Gambler_(film)
Painting by Johannes Vermeer c. 1668
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The_Astronomer
Modification to playing cards
such as by bending or adding visible marks to a card. This allows different methods for card sharps to cheat or for magicians to perform magic tricks
Card_marking
Greek sculpture of the 3rd century BC
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Dying_Gaul
Personal organizer released in 1988
organizer functions with an IC Card expansion system, allowing users to install software and memory cards. Over time, Sharp refined the series with larger
Sharp_Wizard
1827 painting by Eugène Delacroix
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The_Death_of_Sardanapalus
Australian RAF officer
himself on the black economy donated his grog for the event. He was a card sharp. Few could beat Parker at cards, especially when he shuffled the pack
Vincent_Parker
American television series (2004–2006)
by many of Deadwood's citizens and the service is conducted by former card sharp Andy Cramed, who has returned to Deadwood an ordained minister. George
Deadwood_(TV_series)
French painter (1593–1652)
Notable work The Fortune Teller Joseph the Carpenter Magdalene at a Mirror The Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds Movement Baroque Patrons Henry II, Duke of Lorraine
Georges_de_La_Tour
1976 film by Melvin Frank
female hustler who becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man and card sharp through a series of misadventures before falling in love with him. The
The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox
The_Duchess_and_the_Dirtwater_Fox
British street magician, author, and lecturer (born 1960)
& Gazzo. (25 March 2004) Phantoms at the Card Table: Confessions of a Card Sharp Philadelphia: Running Press. (Paperback) 256p. ISBN 1-56858-299-4 "Magician
Gazzo_(magician)
Glass-and-metal pyramid in the main courtyard of the Louvre Palace
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Louvre_Pyramid
Ancient marble sculpture
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Sleeping_Hermaphroditus
Branch of magical illusion that deals with sleight of hand involving playing cards
of hand easier in the process. List of card manipulation techniques Card flourish Card marking Card sharp Card throwing Sleight of hand Trick deck Citations
Card_manipulation
1974 American Western television series
Glitters" Unknown Unknown February 22, 1974 (1974-02-22) 005 A beautiful card sharp pretends to be a damsel in distress to take advantage of gullible Pike
Dirty_Sally
Wagering something of value on a random event
Japan back at least as far as the 14th century. Poker, the most popular U.S. card game associated with gambling, derives from the Persian game As-Nas, dating
Gambling
English inventor and stage magician (1839–1917)
book Sharps and Flats: A Complete Revelation of the Secrets of Cheating at Games of Chance and Skill is considered a classic overview of card sharp practices
John_Nevil_Maskelyne
1808 painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
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The_Valpinçon_Bather
American actor (1925–2017)
prisoner by a German villager played by Alec Guinness. Connors played the card sharp in the remake of Stagecoach (1966). Connors was strongly considered to
Mike_Connors
American filmmaker and actor (1920–1982)
Schaefer (played by Nancy Olson). In Dark City, Webb played a vicious card sharp and Harry Morgan a punch-drunk ex-fighter, in contrast to the pair's straight-arrow
Jack_Webb
Satirical pen and paper personal organizer
But Bad At Actual Productivity". Slow Burn Productions. 15 July 2006. "Card Sharp". The Guardian. 23 June 2005. Archived from the original on 27 January
Hipster_PDA
Painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
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The_Turkish_Bath
Unfinished painting by Leonardo da Vinci
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The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (Leonardo)
The_Virgin_and_Child_with_Saint_Anne_(Leonardo)
1993 Indian film
living. Chintamani has no relatives except one brother, an unscrupulous card-sharp named Bhoopathi who lives off his sister's earnings. Chintamani saves
Bava_Bavamaridi
Semi-nomadic people in Western Europe
author in 1810 argues that Jauner is a deprecating term, equivalent to card sharp, and that the proper designation for the people should be "jenische Gasche"
Yenish_people
Historical and mythical limestone account / depiction
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Stele_of_the_Vultures
American bank holding company
Financial Corp.: Card sharp". Institutional Investor. January 14, 2005. Retrieved June 2, 2026. "COMPANY NEWS; SIGNET BANKING TO SPIN OFF CREDIT CARD BUSINESS"
Capital_One
16th-century French painting in the Louvre
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Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses sœurs
Gabrielle_d'Estrées_et_une_de_ses_sœurs
Overview of poker cheating
stacks the card(s) while doing a riffle shuffle. This form of stacking is the most difficult to master and the most respected under the card sharps and magicians
Cheating_in_poker
American outlaw (1853–1895)
Hardin may have wounded three Mexicans in an argument over a Three-card Monte card game, pistol-whipping one man over the head, shooting one man in the
John_Wesley_Hardin
Painting by Eugène Delacroix
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The_Barque_of_Dante
1979 video game
Bradley Gamevision series: Connect Four, Yahtzee, Hangman, Zero Zap, Card Sharp, and Stratego. These six cartridges were the launch titles for the TI-99/4
Zero_Zap
1976 Indian film
"Dus Numbri". He meets with and falls in love with a petty thief and card-sharp, Rosemary Fernandes. When Radha accidentally meets with Rosemary, she
Dus_Numbri
Gambling game played with cards
takes half the stake. Robert-Houdin explained a mechanism by which a card sharp could cheat at lansquenet, by palming and then placing atop the deck a
Lansquenet
American actress (1907–1990)
pg. 141 Bradshaw, Peter (February 14, 2019). "The Lady Eve review – card sharp Barbara Stanwyck steals the show". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved
Barbara_Stanwyck
American magician and actor (1946–2018)
recurring character and writer for the first season in 2004, playing card sharp Eddie Sawyer. He wrote the episode "Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking"
Ricky_Jay
1968 film by William Wyler
tragi-comedienne Fanny Brice of the ungainly mien and manner, charmed by the suave card-sharp Nicky Arnstein, is perhaps of familiar pattern, but it is to the credit
Funny_Girl_(film)
2022 American film by Walter Hill
Territory, veteran bounty hunter Max Borlund learns that Joe Cribbens, a card sharp and armed robber who served five years in prison after being brought to
Dead_for_a_Dollar
Early Neolithic statues found in Jordan
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Ayn_Ghazal_statues
1975 Indian film
be a professional stage singer and dancer, while Raju grows up to be a card-sharp and a thief. Years later, both Raju (now called Chander) and Guddi (now
Salaakhen_(1975_film)
Painting by Antoine Watteau
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The_Embarkation_for_Cythera
British television series (2010–2015)
with a guest. In the Christmas special set mainly in London, Sampson, a card sharp, steals a letter written by the future Edward VIII, then Prince of Wales
Downton_Abbey
Skylight in the Carrousel du Louvre
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Louvre_Inverted_Pyramid
1951 American film
irresistible urge for gambling. When a cat decides to quit playing cards with a card sharp (a bulldog), the bug decides to infect it with his fever. The cat agrees
Early_to_Bet
1847–1848 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray
English author William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic
Vanity_Fair_(novel)
American mathematician
O. Thorp Inefficient Markets by Edward O. Thorp Lenzner, Robert. "The Card Sharp Who Cottoned Onto Madoff's Fraud In 1991". Forbes.com. Retrieved April
Edward_O._Thorp
1923 novel by P. G. Wodehouse
a criminal known as “Smooth Lizzie”, enlists her former partner, the card sharp Eddie Cootes, into her own plan to acquire the necklace. Psmith is forced
Leave_It_to_Psmith
American magician (1903–1985)
he learned from a local card sharp how to perform such swindles as The Three Card Monte, and how to cheat in gambling card games by manipulating the
John_Scarne
2023 American sitcom revival
in the courthouse basement, and scores big until Gurgs and Olivia (a card sharp in her own right) help the sailors win back their money. Separately, Jasmine
Night_Court_(2023_TV_series)
1978 novel by William Kennedy
O'Connell. In 1930s Albany, New York, Billy Phelan is a hustler at pool, card sharp, bowler, and occasional bookmaker. Martin Daugherty is a reporter, and
Billy_Phelan's_Greatest_Game
vulnerabilities with Dolly. Eddie Sawyer (Ricky Jay) appears in the first season. A card sharp at Cy Tolliver's Bella Union saloon, Sawyer has worked with Tolliver for
List_of_Deadwood_characters
Statue of Diana
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Diana_of_Versailles
CARD SHARP
CARD SHARP
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Old English personal name Heard or a Norman cognate Hard(on), also of Germanic origin. This was a byname meaning ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’, but it also seems to have been used as a short form of the various compound names containing this as a first element. Occasionally this may also be a variant of Hardy.English, German, Dutch, and Swedish (Hård) : nickname for a stern or severe man, from Middle English, Middle Low German hard, Middle Dutch hart, hert, Swedish hård ‘hard’, ‘inflexible’. The Swedish name was probably originally a soldier’s name.English : topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of particularly hard ground or one that was difficult to farm. Compare Hardacre.Dutch : occupational name from Middle Dutch harde, herde ‘herder’.
Male
English
Older spelling of German Karl, CARL means "man."Â
Male
English
Variant spelling of English unisex Cary, CARI means "dark one."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Old French corde ‘string’, a metonymic occupational name for a maker of cord or string, or a nickname for an habitual wearer of decorative ties and ribbons.French : variant of Couard, a derogatory nickname from Old French couard ‘coward’, ‘poltroon’, a compound of coe ‘tail’ + the pejorative suffix -ard.
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, English, German, Swedish
Manly; Feminine Variant of Charles; Carl; Little One Dark Haired
Male
English
 English occupational surname transferred to forename use, derived from Old English weard, WARD means "guard, watchman."Â
Male
French
French form of German Abelard, ABÉLARD means "noble strength."
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, Arabic, Australian, British, Christian, English, German, Irish, Jamaican, Teutonic
Bard; Surname; Guardian; Watchman
Boy/Male
English American German
Man. Famous Bearer: astronomer Carl Sagan.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Old English weard ‘guard’ (used as both an agent noun and an abstract noun).Irish : reduced form of McWard, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Bhaird ‘son of the poet’. The surname occurs throughout Ireland, where three different branches of the family are known as professional poets.Surname adopted by bearers of the Jewish surname Warshawski, Warshawsky or some other Jewish name bearing some similarity to the English name.Americanized form of French Guerin.The surname Ward was brought to North America from England independently by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Nathaniel Ward (1578–1652), author of the MA legal code, was born in Haverhill, Suffolk, England, and emigrated to Agawam (Ipswich, MA) in 1633. William Ward was one of the original settlers of Sudbury, MA, in about 1638. Miles Ward came from England to Salem, MA, in about 1639. Thomas Ward (d. 1689) settled in Newport, RI, in 1671; among his descendants were two governors of colonial RI.
Male
Norwegian
Danish and Norwegian form of Old Norse Hávarðr, HÅVARD means "high guard."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Chard or South Chard in Somerset, recorded in Domesday Book as Cerdren, possibly from Old English ceart ‘rough heathland’ + ærn ‘building’, ‘dwelling’. In some instances the surname may have arisen simply as a topographic name from ceart.French : from the personal name Chard, a short form of Richard;French : habitational name for someone from Chard in the department of Creuse.
Female
English
Modern English name derived either from Italian cara, a term of endearment CARA means "beloved," or from the Irish Gaelic word cara, meaning "friend."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metonymic occupational name for someone who carded wool (i.e. disentangled it), preparatory to spinning, from Middle English, Old French card(e) ‘carder’, an implement used for this purpose.Reduced form of Irish McCard.
Surname or Lastname
Scottish and northern Irish
Scottish and northern Irish : reduced form of McCart.English : from Middle English cart(e) ‘cart’ (from Old English cræt, Old Norse kartr), hence a metonymic occupational name for a carter or cartwright.French : from Old Occitan cart, a variant of quart, a term which in the Middle Ages denoted a tax levied on wine; hence possibly a metonymic occupational name for a tax collector.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metonymic occupational name for a seller of dairy products, from Middle English crud(de), curd(de) ‘curd (cheese)’ (of uncertain, possibly Celtic, origin).
Male
French
French form of Old High German Gerhard, GÉRARD means "spear strong."
Surname or Lastname
German, Polish, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic)
German, Polish, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Karp.English : from Middle English, Old French carpe ‘carp’, in some cases a nickname for a greedy person or for someone thought to resemble the fish in some other way; also a metonymic occupational name for a carp fisherman or a seller of the fish.English : possibly a nickname for a garrulous or complaining person, from Middle English carp(e) ‘carping speech’.
Girl/Female
American, Australian, Celtic, German, Latin
The Dark One; Female Version of Charles; Carl; A Man; Descendant of the Dark One
Surname or Lastname
French
French : metonymic occupational name for a gardener, from the objective case (gard) of Old French gardin ‘garden’.English : variant spelling of Guard.Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead so named, from Old Norse garðr ‘farm’.Swedish (Gård) : topographic or ornamental name from gård ‘farm’.
CARD SHARP
CARD SHARP
Girl/Female
Greek
A flower name. Variant of Samantha.
Boy/Male
Australian, Vietnamese
Fame; Prestige
Girl/Female
Indian
Boy/Male
English American
Variants of Randolph 'Wolf's shield.' Surname.
Girl/Female
Hindu
Another name of Parvati, The earth
Boy/Male
Biblical
Tears and groans of judgment.
Boy/Male
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Telugu
Lord Shiva
Boy/Male
Indian
Name of a popular poet
Male
Slovene
Slovene form of Latin Franciscus, FRANÄŒIÅ EK means "French."
Girl/Female
Muslim/Islamic
Proper name
CARD SHARP
CARD SHARP
CARD SHARP
CARD SHARP
CARD SHARP
v. t.
To carry or convey in a cart.
v. t.
To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
n.
A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry.
pl.
of Carp
adv.
With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.
n.
An indicator card. See under Indicator.
v. t.
To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.
v. t.
To harden; to make hard.
n.
A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery.
n.
A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair.
superl.
Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.
n.
To smear with lard or fat.
superl.
Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.
n.
A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards.
n.
Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness; watchfulness; as, take care; have a care.
superl.
Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms.
v. t.
To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse.
v. i.
To play at cards; to game.
imp. & p. p.
of Care