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Definition of Dicing

1. n. An ornamenting in squares or cubes.

Definition of Dicing

1. Verb. (present participle of dice) ¹

2. Noun. A game of dice. ¹

3. Noun. A fragment of diced food. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dicing

1. dice [v] - See also: dice

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dicing

Literary usage of Dicing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"I cannot tell what revel ye have over night, whether in banquetting, or dicing, or carding, or how it is ; but in the morning when the poor suitors come to ..."

2. The History of Gambling in England by John Ashton (1898)
"... dicing—dicing in England in the I3th and I4th Centuries—In the I7th Century—Celebrated Gamblers—Bourchier—Swiss Anecdote- dicing in the i8th Century. ..."

3. Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works by Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)
"... Treatise against dicing, Dancing, &c. Shakespeare Society, 1843, p. 171, and Collier's Introduction, p. xiv. 2. See ART. 619. 3. ..."

4. The Diary of Matthew Patten of Bedford, N.H. by Matthew Patten (1903)
"... dicing potatoes I suppose we have about 30 bushels to go into Frenches Cellar And I lot Thomas Boies have 001 feet of Boards at ..."

5. The Shoe Industry by Frederick James Allen (1922)
"dicing Out Straps. Straps for Oxford shoes and button flies are usually died out by hand, by the use of a mallet, in this department, rather than by the ..."

6. Our Navy at Work: The Yankee Fleet in French Waters as Seen by Reginald by Reginald Wright Kauffman (1918)
"... OUR NAVY AT WORK PART ONE dicing WITH DEATH CHAPTER I SAILING WITH THE SUICIDE FLEET THERE was a broad streak of moonlight splashed across a leaden sea, ..."

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