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▪ I. sice, size|saɪs, saɪz|
Forms: α. 5 sysse, 5–6 sys, 6 syse, syis; 5 sis, 5– sise, 6– size. β. 5– sice, 6–7 syce.
[a. OF. sis, siis (mod.F. six):—L. sex six. So MDu. sijs (infl. sise).]
1. 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 3).
αc1386Chaucer Monk's T. 671 Thy sys fortune hath turned in-to Aas. 1474Caxton Chesse iii. viii, He caste thre dyse, and on eche dyse was a sise, which made xviij poyntes. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1874) I. 295 Thoughe sys or synke them fayle, The dyse oft renneth upon the chaunce of thre. a1550Image Hypocr. in Skelton's Wks. (1843) II. 438 Seke some better chaunce Yourselves to avaunce, With sise, synke, or synnes, For he laughes that wynnes. Ibid. 442 With sise, sinke, and quatter. 1668Dryden Evening's Love iii. i, So, I have a good chance, two caters and a size. 1684–5South Serm. (1715) I. 297 What Reason in the World can he have to presume, that he shall..throw an Ace rather than a Size? 1712Swift Jrnl. Stella 31 May, The die is cast, and is a spinning, and till it settles, I cannot tell whether it be an ace or a sise. 1837Lockhart 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.
βc1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 166 Whos chaunce gothe neyther on synk nor sice. 1572Satir. Poems Reform. xxxiii. 124 Quhilk thing thay did sa Syce vp and Sink downe. 1576Fleming tr. Caius' Dogs (1880) 26 Our countrymen for their carelessnes of lyfe, setting all at cinque and sice, are of a contrary iudgement. 1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 144 Topsie turvie, vpside downe, sincke shall vp and sice shall vnder. 1688[see 1 c (b)]. 1789M. Madan tr. Perseus (1795) 79 What The lucky sice would bring. 1861Paley æschylus (ed. 2) Agam. 32 Each of the three dice falling with the sice uppermost.
b. sice cinque, a throw with two dice turning up six and five. Similarly sice quatre, sice trey, sice deuce.
In quot. a 1618 with pun on cinquepace.
c1386Chaucer Man of Law's Prol. 125 Your bagges been nat fild with ambes as But with sys cynk, that renneth for your chaunce. 1552Huloet, Nomber of eyghte on the dyce, as sice deux. [a1618Sylvester Lacrymæ Lacrymarum 102 Bats, Harpies, Syrens, Centaurs, Bib-all-nights, Sice-sink-ap-Asses, Hags.] 1658J. Jones Ovid's Ibis 75 Deuce ace cannot pay scot and lot, and Sice Sink will not pay. 1694Motteux Rabelais v. x. (1737) 37 They were call'd..Sice cinque, Sice quater, Sice trey. 1748Hoyle Backgammon iii. §8 Size-Deuce, a Man to be brought from the five Men placed in your Adversary's Tables. Ibid. iv. §6 A probability of throwing..Quatre-Trois. or Size-Cinque.
c. size-ace, sice-ace. (a) A throw with two dice turning up six and one; also fig. (b) A variety of backgammon (see quot. 1688).
(a)1592Nobody & Someb. in Simpson Sch. Shaks. (1878) I. 337 Sico. Give me some bales of dice. What are these?..Som. Those bar Sizeaces. 1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. Wks. (Grosart) V. 172 A number of good fellowes would giue size ace and the dice that with as little toyle they could leaue Tyburne behinde them. 1641in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1692) iii. I. 217 Here Satan stays, when these Persons..will give Satan Size-ace and the Dice, at Irish, in enthralling the Lives of the Subjects. 1663Dryden Wild Gallant i. iii, Size ace I have thrown. 1748Hoyle Backgammon iii. §7 Size Ace, you are to take your Barr Point, for a Gammon, or for a Hit. 1832Fraser's Mag. V. 475 Behind this size-ace of our species we think we recognise Mr. John Bowyer Nichols.
(b)1688Holme Armoury iii. xvi. (Roxb.) 63/2 Sice-Ace. It is played with six or more men apeece where the one load the other with Aces, and sices beares onely and dubbletts throws againe, and he that hath first borne his men wins.
2. size-point.
a. In backgammon, the sixth point from the inner end of each table.
1552Huloet, Sice or the nombre of sixe on the dice or y⊇ sice poynt in tables, senio. 1748Hoyle Backgammon viii. §7 Suppose A to have 2 Men upon his Size Point in his own Tables. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. iv. ii. 282 Changing the ace point in the English game for the size point.
†b. The six in dice. Obs.
1648Hexham ii, Sesken, the Size point on a Die.
3. slang. Sixpence.
1660Tatham Rump iv. i. Wks. (1879) 254 He..allows me the merry sice a day to spend till better times come. 1684Roxb. Ball. (1885) V. 459 He'l print for a Sice, (For that is his price) Your Name (that you may brag 'twas so done) on the Ice! 1709Brit. Apollo No. 56. 3/1 For want of Sice to hire a Bed. Ibid. No. 71. 3/2 For two and six Pence and a Sice too. [1830Lytton Paul Clifford iii, As Mrs. Lobkins expressed it, ‘two bobs for the Latin, and a sice for the vartue’!]
▪ II. sice
obs. form of size. |