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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Plural of die2.
  2. n. A small cube, as of food.
  3. n. A dish of diced food.
  4. v. To play or gamble with dice.
  5. v. To win or lose (money) by gambling with dice.
  6. v. To cut (food) into small cubes.
  7. v. To decorate with dicelike figures.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. The plural of die.
  2. A game with dice. See die.
  3. To play with dice.
  4. To cut into cubes or squares.
  5. To sew a kind of waved pattern on (the border of a garment).
  6. To decorate with a pattern (especially a woven one) resembling cubes seen diagonally—that is, with hexagons so shaded by the run of the thread as to resemble cubes so placed; less properly, to weave with a pattern of squares or lozenges touching one another.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Plural form of die.
  2. n. uncountable Gaming with one or more dice.
  3. n. countable A die.
  4. n. this sense?) (proscribed by some) An alternative singular of die, for such meanings of die as have the plural dice.
  5. n. uncountable, cooking That which has been diced.
  6. v. intransitive To play dice.
  7. v. transitive To cut into small cubes.
  8. v. transitive To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See die, n.
  2. v. To play games with dice.
  3. v. (Cooking) To cut into small cubes.
  4. v. To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. play dice
  2. n. a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
  3. v. cut into cubes

Etymologies

  1. Pl. of die2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • pikachu Or think of a decent young citizen in a toga--perhaps too much dice, you know--coming out here in the train of some prefect, or tax-gatherer, or trader even, to mend his fortunes. -- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Mar 4, 2011

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