Obs. [f. prec.] a. In the game of Five-cards: To five it (see quot.). b. trans. (nonce-use.) To count by fives.
1674. Cotton, Gamester, xiii. 123. Before you play, ask whether he will five it, if he speaks affirmatively turn up the next Card of the Pack under that first turn’d up, and that must be trumps; if not play it out.
1769. R. Wood, Ess. Homer, Lang, & Learning. When therefore I say that he fived them I take the liberty of coining a word, which, corresponding precisely with the old Greek term [πεμπάσσεται], will convey to the English reader an allusion to the origin of arithmetic.
