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For by the ace I have always thought the laws of the land denoted; and as the ace is above the king or queen, and wins them, I think the law should be thought so too; though, may be, I shall be deemed a Whig for my opinion I shall never play whist, said Mr. Perry, without thinking of this, and shall love the game the better for the thought; though I am no party-man.

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  1. noun A single spot or pip on a playing card, die, or domino.
  2. noun A playing card, die, or domino having one spot or pip.
  3. noun In racket games:
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  • So I start with the ace -- yeah, ace. —  Lennart Green does close-up card magic
  • Lowe is capable of giving the team a legitimate ace, and the fivesome of Lowe, Kawakami, —  The Times-Journal: News
  • Their ace is the reigning American League Cy Young, who also happens to be the same guy who was left off the team's 2007 postseason roster. —  CantonRep.com Home RSS
  • When he plays poker, it's hard to tell whether he has an ace up his sleeve or if the ace is missing from his deck altogether. —  Nuke Gingrich
  • Many staffs don't have an ace, and there are times when staffs have more than one. —  Baseball Analysts
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  1. Middle English as, from Old French, from Latin, unit.

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  1. from Middle English as, aas, from Old French as, an ace, French as = Spanish as = Portuguese az = Italian asso = German ass = Dutch aas = Icelandic āss = Swedish ess = Danish es, from Latin as (accusative assem), a unit, a pound, a foot, usually but prob. erroneously derived from ἂς, said to be the Tarentine form of Greek εἱ̄ς (accusative ἑνα), one, a unit; akin to L. sem-el and English same: see same.
 

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