| 单词 |
dicing |
| 释义 |
▪ I. dicing, vbl. n.|ˈdaɪsɪŋ|
[f. dice v. + -ing1.]
1. The action or practice of playing or gambling with dice; dice-play.
1456How wise man taught Son 60 in Hazl. E.P.P. I. 171 Dysyng I the forbede. 1535Act 27 Hen. VIII, c. 25 Any open..place for common bowling, dising, carding, closhe, tenys, or other unlawfull games. 1550Crowley Epigr. 669 Diceynge hath brought many wealthye menne to care. a1648Ld. Herbert Life (1886) 79 The exercises I wholly condemn, are dicing and carding. 1708S. Centlivre Busie Body ii. i, These young fellows think old men get estates for nothing but them to squander away in dicing. 1861M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 47 Severer penalties awaited drunkenness, dissipation, or dicing.
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.
3. attrib. and Comb. (in sense 1), as dicing-board, dicing-box, dicing-chamber, dicing-money, dicing-table.
1571Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1835) 366 A round dyssenge table. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. 128 [Thou] dost set downe as it were on a dicing boord in the hazard of one houre, both thy kingdome and life. 1586A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 44 It was in an Inne..in a dicing Chamber. a1634Randolph Muses' Looking-Gl. i. iv, A niggard churl Hoarding up dicing-moneys for his son. 1655Marquis of Worcester Cent. Inv. §90 A most dexterous Dicing Box..that with a knock..the four good Dice are fastened, and it looseneth four false Dice.
▪ II. ˈdicing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
Playing with dice.
1884H. D. Traill Coleridge iii. 54 The skeleton ship, with the dicing demons on its deck [Anc. Mar. iii. xii.] |
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