different between tice vs tace

English

Etymology 1

Possibly from entice, as below, suggesting the bowler's purpose.

Noun

tice (plural tices)

1. (cricket, dated) A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket; a yorker.
   • 1862, James Picroft, The Cricket-Field, Or The History and the Science of the Game of Cricket, page 120,

     Bowlers should practise both toss and tice.

   • 1863 March 7, The Complete Guide to the Cricket Field: Chapter III: The Batsman, The Boy's Miscellany: An Illustrated Journal of Useful and Entertaining Literature for Youth, Volume 1, page 155,

     The tice is almost a full pitch. If you have a long reach, go in and play forward; if not, however, keep your bat down, and block it.

   • 1870 July, The Wykehamist, Number 33, page 1,

     Raynor, though somewhat wild, obtained an extraordinary number of wickets for very few runs, his fast "tices" quite puzzling the Eton bats.

   • 1911, Henry Charles Howard Suffolk and Berkshire (Earl of), Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo, The Encyclopaedia of Sport & Games, Volume 1, page 452,

     A "yorker" (or "tice") pitches on, or within six inches of, the popping crease; […] .

Synonyms

• (ball bowled to strike the pitch near the batsman's feet): yorker

Etymology 2

Aphetic form of entice.

Verb

tice (third-person singular simple present tices, present participle ticing, simple past and past participle ticed)

1. (obsolete) To entice.
   • c. 1598-1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus

     Have I not reason, think you, to look pale?
     These two have 'ticed me hither to this place:

Anagrams

• -etic, CETI, EITC, cite, etic

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English tyce, aphetic from Old French atisier (“to stir up”), probably from a word meaning "to set on fire," derived from Latin titio (“firebrand”). Compare English entice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?is/, /taez/

Verb

tice (third-person singular present tices, present participle ticin, past ticet, past participle ticet)

1. to coax, entice, wheedle

References

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French terce, alternative form of tiers (“third”).

Noun

tice m

1. terce

English

Noun

tace (plural taces)

1. Alternative form of tasse

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairholt to this entry?)

   • 1860 December 22, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman, Punch's Book of British Costume, Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 39: July—December 1860, page 248,

     The passe-gardes we have mentioned are also clearly visible, and notice should be taken of the horizontal plates, called taces, extending from the breastplate to protect the hips. As we have seen in the last reign, two small pointed plates, called tuilles, are affixed by straps in the front to the lowest of the taces, so as to give a further protection to the thigh; and under them is visible a short tunic of mail, which, we thus learn, still continued in military use.

Anagrams

• CETA, Cate, acet-, cate

Italian

Verb

tace

1. third-person singular present of tacere

Anagrams

• teca

Latin

Verb

tac?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of tace?

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

tace

1. inflection of taca (“skin”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.t?s?/

Noun

tace f

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of taca

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?tat??e]

Verb

tace

1. third-person singular present indicative of t?cea