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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 box from which dice are thrown in gaming. Thackeray.

A genus of herbaceous plants, with racemes of two-spurred or heart-shaped flowers, including the Dutchman's breeches, and the more showy Bleeding heart (D. spectabilis). [Corruptly written dielytra.]

Having two heads on one body; double-headed.

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

See Adze. [Obs.] Moxon.

Excision of the vermiform appendix.

To infect with jaundice.

See Bodick.

outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it. Her bodice half way she unlaced. Prior.

Wearing a bodice. Thackeray.

The larva of a caddice fly. These larvæ generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm. Caddice fly (Zoöl.), a species of trichopterous insect, whose la…

r; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit. The cowardice of doing wrong. Milton. Moderation was despised as cowardice. Macualay.

To free from prejudice. [Obs.] W. Montagu.

Index; indication. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

See Index.

nt damming up, in the liver, of the bile, which is then absorbed into the blood. Blue jaundice. See Cyanopathy.

affected with jaundice. Jaundiced eyes seem to see all objects yellow. Bp. Hall.

Of or pertaining to Laodicea, a city in Phrygia Major; like the Christians of Laodicea; lukewarm in religion. Rev. iii. 14-16.

Evil speaking. [Obs.] Atterbury.