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Definition of Dicings
1. dicing [n] - See also: dicing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dicings
| dichromophil dichroous dichroscope dichroscopes dichroscopic dicht dichted dichting dichts dicier | diciest dicily diciness dicing dicings (current term) |
Literary usage of Dicings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hellenic Civilization by George Willis Bostsford (1915)
"... giving themselves out to be innocent pleasures, to wit, dicings and profitless
associations among men. These in the fulness of time appear in all their ..."
2. Friendship's Offering, and Winter's Wreath.: And Winter's Wreath: a by Thomas Kibble Hervey, Leitch Ritchie (1852)
"... or the dicings in the withdrawing room, where a thousand pound would he lost
and won hetween midnight and dawn ; or the dancings, and bowlings, ..."
3. Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the New by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Archaeological Institute of America Southwest Society, Sequoya League (1903)
"... stock gambling and grain-farm gambling—these dicings, nor any of them, had
set down no tap-root in the southern part of the State. ..."
4. The Ingoldsby Legends, Or, Mirth and Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby (1879)
"Sins of all sorts and shapes, From small practical japes, Up to dicings and
drinkings, and murders and rapes, And then of such standing ! ..."
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