Sire vs Sice - What's the difference?

sire | sice |

As a proper noun sire

is .

As a noun sice is

(obsolete) the number six in a game of dice.

sire

English

Noun

(en noun)

A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.

A male animal; a stud, especially a horse or dog, that has fathered another.

(obsolete) A father; the head of a family; the husband.

* Shakespeare

And raise his issue, like a loving sire .

(obsolete) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.

* Shelley

[He] was the sire of an immortal strain.

Verb

(sir)

Of a male: to procreate; to father, beget.

* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 6:

In these travels, my father sired thirteen children in all, four boys and nine girls.

Anagrams

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sice

English

Alternative forms

* sise, size

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) The number six in a game of dice.

* 1680 , Thomas Godwyn, Romanae historiae anthologia recognita et aucta (page 112)

In their common game, the most fortunate throw is thought to have been three Sices

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