| 单词 | to set at cinque and sice |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto set at cinque and sice ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [noun] > faculty of sensation > the senses the fivefold mightsa1200 five witsc1200 passionsa1425 senses?1530 common senses1533 fifteen wits1606 Cinque Ports1633 cinque outposts, posts1649 perceptions1666 perceptives1835 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 44 Greit folie to set on synk and syss, The greit honour befoir the Romanis wan. 1568 U. Fulwell Like wil to Like sig. D.iiiiv My swoord, my buckler, and all at sink and cise. 1577–82 N. Breton Toys of Idle Head in Wks. (1879) I. 28/1 Setting all at sincke and syce. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 174 Our countrey men..for their carelesnes of life setting all at cinque and sice. 1649 Winter Dream in Harl. Misc. VII. 203 I was fallen soundly asleep; the cinque-out-posts were shut up closer than usually. 1660 J. Howell Θηρολογια 32 As if the cinq-posts (my five outward senses) had been trebly lockt up. to set at cinque and sice a. The number six marked upon dice; a throw in which the die turns up six. Often in figurative contexts and phrases, as to set at cinque and sice (see cinque n. 3). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > throw > (throw of) specific number ace?a1300 cinquec1386 sicec1386 sice cinquec1386 treyc1386 quernc1450 ames-acec1460 cater-trey?a1500 twoa1500 cater1519 deuce1519 quatrec1540 trey-acea1556 sice-ace1594 four1599 size-point1648 trey-deuce1680 boxcar1909 trey-point- α. β. c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 166 Whos chaunce gothe neyther on synk nor sice.1572 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxxiii. 124 Quhilk thing thay did sa Syce vp and Sink downe.1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 26 Our countrymen..for their carelessnes of lyfe setting all at cinque and sice, are of a contrary iudgement.1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 144 Topsie turvie, vpside downe, sincke shall vp and sice shall vnder. 1688 [see sice-ace n. at sense 1c]. 1789 M. Madan tr. Persius Satires (1795) 79 What The lucky sice would bring.1855 F. A. Paley in tr. Aeschylus Agamemnon in Trag. 305/2 Each of the three dice falling with the sice uppermost.c1386 G. Chaucer Monk's Tale 671 Thy sys fortune hath turned in-to Aas. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. viii. 152 He..caste .iii. dyse, And on eche dyse was a syse, whiche made .xviii. poynts. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. cxxiiiv Thoughe sys or synke them fayle The dyse oft renneth upon the chaunce of thre. c1540 Image Ipocrysy iv, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 438 With sise, sinke, and quatter. c1540 Image Ipocrysy iv, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 442 Seke some better chaunce Yourselves to avaunce, With sise synke or synnes; For he laughe[s] that wynnes. 1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love iii. 44 So, I have a good chance, two quaters and a sice. 1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 377 What reason in the world, can he have to presume that he shall..throw an Ace rather than a Sise? 1712 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 31 May (1948) II. 534 The Dye is cast, and is now a spinning, and till it settles I can not tell whethr it be an Ace or a Sise. 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott III. x. 327 He no more knew whether he had written well or ill, than whether a die thrown out of a box was to turn up a size or an ace. < as lemmas |
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