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five | fice |

As a numeral five

is (cardinal) a numerical value equal to ; the number following four and preceding six this many dots (•••••).

As a noun five

is the digit/figure 5.

As an initialism fice is

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five

English

(wikipedia five)

Alternative forms

* Arabic numerals: (see for numerical forms in other scripts) * Roman numerals: V

Numeral

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  • (cardinal) A numerical value equal to ; the number following four and preceding six. This many dots (•••••)

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The digit/figure 5.
    • He wrote a five followed by four zeroes.
  • (US) A five-dollar bill.
    • Can anyone here change a five ?
  • Anything measuring five units, as length.
    • All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours.
  • A person who is five years old.
    • The fives and sixes will have snack first, then the older kids.
  • five o'clock
    • See you at five .
  • A short rest, especially one of five minutes.
    • Take five , soldier.

    Derived terms

    * five and dime * five-and-twenty * five-bar gate * five-card stud * five-finger exercise * five-line whip * five o'clock * high five * low five * take five * gimme five * slap me five

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    fice

    English

    Alternative forms

    * feist, fise, fist

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small, snappy, belligerent, mixed-breed dog.
  • * 1805 October 3, Lorenzo Dow, journal, in Orrin Scofield (ed.), Perambulations of Cosmopolite; or Travels and Labors of Lorenzo Dow, in Europe and America , Orrin Scofield (1842), page 178,
    • He wrote a letter to Bob Sample, one of the most popular A-double-L-part preachers in the country, who like a little fice , or cur dog, would rail behind my back.
  • * a''1849, James W. C. Pennington, ''The Fugitive Blacksmith; or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State of Maryland, United States , Second Edition, Charles Gilpin (1849), pages 33–34,
    • Besides inflicting upon my own excited imagination the belief that I made noise enough to be heard by the inmates of the house who were likely to be rising at the time, I had the misfortune to attract the notice of a little house-dog, such as we call in that part of the world a “fice ,’ on account of its being not only the smallest species of the canine race, but also, because it is the most saucy, noisy, and teasing of all dogs.
  • * 1873, Joseph S. Williams, Old Times in West Tennessee: Reminiscences—Semi-historic—of Pioneer Life and the Early Emigrant Settlers in the Big Hatchie Country , W. G. Cheeney, page 260,
    • One August afternoon he was returning from his dinner, when near the public square, he came to a little white fice dog and another little dog grining and growling at each other on the sidewalk.
  • * 1955, John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage , Harper and Brothers Publishers, page 114
    • At Belton, an armed thug suddenly arose and started toward him. But old Sam Houston, looking him right in the eye, put each hand on his own pistols: "Ladies and Gentlemen, keep your seats. It is nothing but a fice barking at the lion in his den.
  • * 1995, George Cauley, quoted in Mark Derr, Dog’s Best Friend: Annals of the Dog-Human Relationship , University of Chicago Press (2004), ISBN 0-226-14280-9, page 57,
    • When I was growing up, everybody had a little dog they called a feist or fice and a big yard dog, a cur.
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