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† ˈsea-card Obs.
[card n.2]
1. A chart of the sea (see card n.2 3 b and chart n.1 1 b). Obs.
1571Digges Pantom. i. xxxv. L iij, You shall make a sea carde wherin you may by the former rules place Coastes, Harboroughes, Rockes, Sandes [etc.]. 1745Pococke Descr. East II. ii. 148 The whole, according to the sea-cards, being the bay of Contessa.
2. The card of the mariner's compass (see card n.2 4).
1555[see card n.2 4]. 1618Fletcher Chances i. xi, We are all like sea-Cards, All our endeavours and our motions,..still point at beauty. 1666Pepys Diary 22 Sept., A little gold frame for one of my sea-cards.
transf.1710Shaftesbury Adv. Author i. iii. 53 Thus much for..those Rules of Art, those Philosophical Sea-Cards by which the adventuring Genius's of the times were won't to steer their Courses, and govern their impetuous Muse. |