1) dice playing
2) metaphorically the deception of men, because dice players sometimes cheated and defrauded their fellow players
Part of Speech: noun feminine
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From κύβος kubos (a "cube", that is, die for playing); gambling, that is, (figuratively) artifice or fraud: - sleight.
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These two sites give similar information, with the definition from several dictionaries and statistics on the use of the word.
University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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