false dice
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He casts nativities as gamesters do false dice, and by slurring and palming sextile, quartile, and trine, like six, quatre, trois, can throw what chance he pleases.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
Sakuni was an expert at false dice, and challenged Yudhishthir, and Yudhishthir held it a point of honour not to decline such a challenge.
From Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse by Romesh Dutt
He then caught the false dice in the same way, shifted the empty box again, and threw till he threw out, still calling the same main, by which artifice he escaped suspicion.
From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) by Andrew Steinmetz
If any one play with false dice or cheat, the monarch shall have him branded and banished.
From Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya by Edward Röer
Lubber, name of a spirit, 8.Good year, corruption of goujère, 274.Goose, emblem of cowardice, 119;terms connected with, 118, 119.Gossamer, notions relating to, 259.Gossip’s bowl, 205.Gourds, false dice, 402.Gout,
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
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