# sice

Pronunciation: say "SYS" /ˈsaɪs/

## Noun

1. Alternative spelling of sais. — Alternative spelling of sais.
   - Simple: Alternative spelling of sais. Both spellings name a servant who looks after horses.
   - _The sice walked behind the carriage, ready to tend the horses at every halt._
   - _Colonial households often employed a sice to manage the stables and grooming._

## Verb

3. To excite or energize someone, getting them worked up about something. *(slang)*
   - Simple: To make someone excited and full of energy.
   - _The DJ knew exactly how to sice the room before the headliner came on._
   - _Talk of the championship siced the entire neighborhood._

## Noun

2. The number six in a throw of the dice during a game. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: The number six when you roll dice in a game.
   - _A lucky sice carried his counter home before the others could catch up._
   - _The gambler cursed when his final cast turned up a deuce instead of a sice._

## Origin

It comes from Middle English "sice" or "sis," through Anglo-Norman from Old French "sis, sies." It is a doublet of "six."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/sice (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).