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unct to gardening. Dibblers. About 1649, Gabriel Platte described a dibbling-machine formed of iron pins, made to play up and down like virginal jacks. Dice. Cubes with marked sides, thrown from a box and used in gaming or determining by chance. The dice of Thebes were cubical, and numbered like the modern, as may be seen by the figure which represents ancient dice in European museums. Ancient Egyptian dice. Dice are referred to in several places in the Rigveda, the most ancient of the Sanscrit religious books:— Let man fear Him who holds the four dice, before He throws them down. — Rig-Veda, I. 41, 9 (B. C. 1500). Rhampsinitusubject in stone is in the British Museum. In the game of duodecim scripta the moves were determined by dice; the game of tali and tesscra was played with dice. Dice similar to ours were found at Herculaneum, and the convulsion which overwhelmed Pompeii surprised a hazard-party at their amusement; 1800 years afterward the dice