sicesizen.

Brit.

/sʌɪs/, U.S.

/saɪs/,

/saɪz/

Forms: α. Middle English sysse, Middle English–1500s sys, 1500s syse, syis; Middle English sis, Middle English– sise, 1500s– size. β. Middle English– sice, 1500s–1600s syce.

Etymology: < Old French sis, siis (modern French six) < Latin sex six. So Middle Dutch sijs (inflected sise).

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).

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > throw > (throw of) specific number

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four1599

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α.

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. cxxiii^v 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.

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.

b. sice cinque, a throw with two dice turning up six and five. Similarly sice quatre, trey, deuce.In quot. a1618 with pun on cinquepace.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > throw > (throw of) specific number

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trey-acea1556

sice-ace1594

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size-point1648

trey-deuce1680

boxcar1909

trey-point-

c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Prol. 125 Your bagges been nat fild with ambes as But with sys cynk, that renneth for your chaunce.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Nomber of eyghte on the dyce, as sice deux.

a1618 J. Sylvester Lacrymæ Lacrymarum 102 Bats, Harpies, Syrens, Centaurs, Bib-all-nights, Sice-sink-ap-Asses, Hags.]

1658 J. Jones tr. Ovid Invective against Ibis 75 Deuce ace cannot pay scot and lot, and Sice Sink will not pay.

1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. x. 37 They were call'd..Sice cinque, Sice quater, Sice trey.

1748 E. Hoyle Backgammon iii. §8 Size-Deuce, a Man to be brought from the five Men placed in your Adversary's Tables.

1748 E. Hoyle Backgammon iv. §6 A probability of throwing..Quatre-Trois. or Size-Cinque.

c. sice-ace n. (also size-ace) (a) A throw with two dice turning up six and one; also figurative. (b) A variety of backgammon (see quot. 1688).

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > backgammon > [noun] > varieties of backgammon

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chouette1935

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > throw > (throw of) specific number

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(a)

1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. N4 A number of good fellowes would giue size ace and the dice that with as little toyle they could leaue Tyburne behinde them.

1606 No-body & Some-body sig. G3^v Sico. Giue me some bales of dice. What are these..? Som. Those bar Sizeaces.

1641 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) 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.

1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant i. i. 13 Size Ace I have thrown.

1748 E. Hoyle Backgammon iii. §7 Size Ace, you are to take your Barr Point, for a Gammon, or for a Hit.

1832 Fraser's Mag. 5 475 Behind this size-ace of our species we think we recognise Mr. John Bowyer Nichols.

(b)1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xvi. 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.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > backgammon > [noun] > board > point > specific point

size-point1552

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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Sice or the nombre of sixe on the dice or y^e sice poynt in tables, senio.

1748 E. Hoyle Backgammon viii. §7 Suppose A to have 2 Men upon his Size Point in his own Tables.

1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. ii. 282 Changing the ace point in the English game for the size point.

†b. The six in dice. Obsolete.

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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-

1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Sesken, the Size point on a Die.

3. slang. Sixpence.

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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > sixpence

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cripple1785

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tizzy1804

tanner1811

bender1836

lord of the manor1839

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sprat1839

fiddler1846

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zac1898

sprasey1905

1660 J. Tatham Rump iv. i, in Wks. (1879) 254 He..allows me the merry sice a day to spend till better times come.

1684 in Roxburghe Ballads (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!

1709 Brit. Apollo 5–7 Oct. For want of Sice to hire a Bed.

1709 Brit. Apollo 25–30 Nov. For two and six Pence and a Sice too.

1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton Paul Clifford I. iii. 39 As Mrs. Lobkins expressed it, ‘two bobs for the Latin, and a sice for the vartue’!]

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sice
释义	sicesizen. Brit. /sʌɪs/, U.S. /saɪs/, /saɪz/ /saɪz/ Forms: α. Middle English sysse, Middle English–1500s sys, 1500s syse, syis; Middle English sis, Middle English– sise, 1500s– size. β. Middle English– sice, 1500s–1600s syce. Etymology: < Old French sis, siis (modern French six) < Latin sex six. So Middle Dutch sijs (inflected sise). 1. 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. 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. cxxiii^v 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. 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. b. sice cinque, a throw with two dice turning up six and five. Similarly sice quatre, trey, deuce.In quot. a1618 with pun on cinquepace. 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- c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Prol. 125 Your bagges been nat fild with ambes as But with sys cynk, that renneth for your chaunce. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Nomber of eyghte on the dyce, as sice deux. a1618 J. Sylvester Lacrymæ Lacrymarum 102 Bats, Harpies, Syrens, Centaurs, Bib-all-nights, Sice-sink-ap-Asses, Hags.] 1658 J. Jones tr. Ovid Invective against Ibis 75 Deuce ace cannot pay scot and lot, and Sice Sink will not pay. 1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. x. 37 They were call'd..Sice cinque, Sice quater, Sice trey. 1748 E. Hoyle Backgammon iii. §8 Size-Deuce, a Man to be brought from the five Men placed in your Adversary's Tables. 1748 E. Hoyle Backgammon iv. §6 A probability of throwing..Quatre-Trois. or Size-Cinque. c. sice-ace n. (also size-ace) (a) A throw with two dice turning up six and one; also figurative. (b) A variety of backgammon (see quot. 1688). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > backgammon > [noun] > varieties of backgammon faylesc1330 provinciala1500 Irish game1509 Irishc1530 queen's gamec1557 tick-tack1558 sice-ace1594 doublet1611 lurch1611 tric-trac1687 verquerea1700 chouette1935 sheshbesh1971 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- (a) 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. N4 A number of good fellowes would giue size ace and the dice that with as little toyle they could leaue Tyburne behinde them. 1606 No-body & Some-body sig. G3^v Sico. Giue me some bales of dice. What are these..? Som. Those bar Sizeaces. 1641 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) 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. 1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant i. i. 13 Size Ace I have thrown. 1748 E. Hoyle Backgammon iii. §7 Size Ace, you are to take your Barr Point, for a Gammon, or for a Hit. 1832 Fraser's Mag. 5 475 Behind this size-ace of our species we think we recognise Mr. John Bowyer Nichols. (b)1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xvi. 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. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > backgammon > [noun] > board > point > specific point size-point1552 bar-point1743 trois point1745 cinque-point1778 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Sice or the nombre of sixe on the dice or y^e sice poynt in tables, senio. 1748 E. Hoyle Backgammon viii. §7 Suppose A to have 2 Men upon his Size Point in his own Tables. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. ii. 282 Changing the ace point in the English game for the size point. †b. The six in dice. Obsolete. 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- 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Sesken, the Size point on a Die. 3. slang. Sixpence. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > sixpence tester1560 half-shilling1561 teston1577 mill sixpence1592 crinklepouch1593 sixpencea1616 testrila1616 piga1640 sice1660 Simon1699 sow's-baby1699 kick1725 cripple1785 grunter1785 tilbury1796 tizzy1804 tanner1811 bender1836 lord of the manor1839 snid1839 sprat1839 fiddler1846 sixpenny bit or piece1897 zac1898 sprasey1905 1660 J. Tatham Rump iv. i, in Wks. (1879) 254 He..allows me the merry sice a day to spend till better times come. 1684 in Roxburghe Ballads (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! 1709 Brit. Apollo 5–7 Oct. For want of Sice to hire a Bed. 1709 Brit. Apollo 25–30 Nov. For two and six Pence and a Sice too. 1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton Paul Clifford I. iii. 39 As Mrs. Lobkins expressed it, ‘two bobs for the Latin, and a sice for the vartue’!] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1386
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