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Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n. Dice coal, a kind of coal easily splitting into cubical fragments. Brande & C.

A player at dice; a dice player; a gamester. As false as dicers' oaths. Shak.

A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.

A blunt javelin used in military games in Moslem countries.

A game much like hockey, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game. [Local, Eng.] Halliwell.

A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched h…

A game of cards in which the suits are played in sequence, beginning with a 5 or 9, the player who gets rid of his cards first being the winner.

A game between two pairs of players; as, a first prize for doubles.

Cinch (the game).

A game somewhat like backgammon. Halliwell.

A game, now more commonly called checkers. See Checkers.

A "man" or piece used in the game of draughts.

A drawn game or battle, etc. [Colloq.]

An old game, played by holding up the fingers. Herrick.

nd prepared to be used as a sort of gravy. -- Drawn fowl, an eviscerated fowl. -- Drawn game or battle, one in which neither party wins; one equally contested. -- Drawn fox, one driven from cover. Shak. -- Drawn work, ornamental work made by drawing out threads from fine cloth, and uniting the cross threads, to for…

A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game, -- formerly a common, and still an occasional, habit of the setter.

The scent of the game, as far as it can be traced. [Obs.] Shak.

To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles. To dub a fly, to dress a fishing fly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. -- To dub out (Plastering), to fill out, as an uneven surface, to a plane, or to carry out a series of small projections.

The fourth or exposed hand when three persons play at a four- handed game of cards.

An old rural game. With any boy at dust-point they shall play. Peacham (1620).