单词 | dicing |
释义 | dicingn. 1. The action or practice of playing or gambling with dice; dice-play. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > dicing dice-playc1440 dicing1456 dice-playingc1490 elbow-shaking1850 dice-box1857 jeffing1875 1456 How Wise Man taught Son 60 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 171 Dysyng I the forbede. 1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 25 Any open..place for common bowling, dising, carding, closhe, tenys, or other unlawfull games. 1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Cii Diceynge hath brought many wealthye menne to care. a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 35 The Exercises I wholly Condemne are Dicing and Carding. 1709 S. Centlivre Busie Body ii. i. 16 These young Fellows think old Men get Estates for nothing but them to squander away, in dicing. 1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 415 Severer penalties awaited drunkenness, dissipation, or dicing. Categories » 2. Bookbinding. A method of ornamenting leather in squares or diamonds: see dice v. 3(b).Done originally by ruling with a blunt awl or edging-tool; the effect is imitated by pressure or stamping with a block. Compounds attributive and in other combinations (in sense 1), as dicing-board, dicing-box, dicing-chamber, dicing-money, dicing-table. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > places for gambling dicing-house1549 carding house1550 gaming house1562 dicing-chamber1571 tabling house1576 game house?1577 macaroni1771 gambling house1772 gambling school1773 gambling club1774 spill-house1778 gambling hall?1781 gambling den1792 gambling booth1804 hell1812 gambling hell1818 Crockford1827 silver hell1835 deadfall1837 casino1851 house1855 tripot1864 skin house1871 bucket-shop1875 gambling joint1885 salle1886 tabling den1886 spoofery1895 salle de jeu1901 strong joint1914 kitchen1924 salle privée1930 spieler1931 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > dice-box dice-box1552 dicing-box1571 box1592 casting-box1616 rattlea1732 tat-box1819 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > table or board taveleOE tavelbredc1275 dicing-board1571 trey-table1646 true-tablea1684 dice-board1844 1571 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 366 A round dyssenge table. 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 135 [Thou] dost set downe as it were on a dicing boord in the hazard of one houre, both thy kingdome & life. 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. G4v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) It was in an Inne..in a dicing chamber. a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse i. iv. 11 in Poems (1638) A niggard Churle Hoarding up dicing-monies for his sonne. 1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions §90 A most dexterous Dicing Box..that with a knock..the four good Dice are fastened, and it looseneth four false Dice. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2020). dicingadj. Playing with dice. ΚΠ 1884 H. D. Traill Coleridge iii. 54 The skeleton ship, with the dicing demons on its deck [ Anc. Mar. iii. xii.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1456adj.1884 |
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