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Entries releated to DICE

 

BONES		Dice.
COG		To cheat with dice; also to coax or wheedle, To cog a die; to conceal or secure a die. To cog a dinner; to wheedle one out of a dinner.
DICE		The names of false dice: A bale of bard cinque deuces A bale of flat cinque deuces A bale of flat sice aces A bale of bard cater traes A bale of flat cater traes A bale of fulhams A bale of light graniers A bale of langrets contrary to the ventage A bale of gordes, with as many highmen as lowmen, for passage A bale of demies A bale of long dice for even and odd A bale of bristles A bale of direct contraries.
DISPATCHERS		Loaded or false dice.
DOCTORS		Loaded dice, that will run but two or three chances. They put the doctors upon him; they cheated him with loaded dice.
DOWN HILLS		Dice that run low.
DRIBBLE		A method of pouring out, as it were, the dice from the box, gently, by which an old practitioner is enabled to cog one of them with his fore-finger.
ELBOW SHAKER		A gamester, one who rattles Saint Hugh's bones, i.e. the dice.
FULHAMS		Loaded dice are called high and lowmen, or high and low fulhams, by Ben Jonson and other writers of his time; either because they were made at Fulham, or from that place being the resort of sharpers.
HIGH JINKS		A gambler at dice, who, having a strong head, drinks to intoxicate his adversary, or pigeon.
LONG GALLERY		Throwing, or rather trundling, the dice the whole length of the board.
MUMCHANCE		An ancient game like hazard, played with dice: probably so named from the silence observed in playing at it.
NAP		To cheat at dice by securing one chance. Also to catch the venereal disease. You've napt it; you are infected.
NICK		To win at dice, to hit the mark just in the nick of time, or at the critical moment.
PASSAGE		A camp game with three dice: doublets, making up ten or more, to pass or win; any other chances lose.
RATTLE		A dice-box. To rattle; to talk without consideration, also to move off or go away. To rattle one off; to rate or scold him.
SHAKE		To shake one's elbow; to game with dice. To shake a cloth in the wind; to be hanged in chains.
SHARPER		A cheat, one that lives by his wits. Sharpers tools; a fool and false dice.
SLUR		To slur, is a method of cheating at dice: also to cast a reflection on any one's character, to scandalize.
STAMP		A particular manner of throwing the dice out of the box, by striking it with violence against the table.
TAT MONGER		One that uses false dice.
TATS		False dice.
UPHILLS		False dice that run high.