Synonyms:
die, dice
Meaning: a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
Usage examples
The dice had fallen against him in this venture.
Cut the potatoes into small dice pieces and fry in hot lard.
At cards, dice, or wheels he had always had hunches and he had always won.
But is war an art so easily acquired that a man may be a warrior who is also a husbandman, or shoemaker, or other artisan; although no one in the world would be a good dice or draught player who merely took up the game as a recreation, and had not from his earliest years devoted himself to this and nothing else?
He succeeded at the time, but the hour of retribution approaches, and he will be obliged to disgorge his winnings, to throw aside his false dice, and to end his days in some retirement, where he may curse his madness at his leisure; for repentance is a virtue with which his heart is likely to remain forever unacquainted.