subs. (old cant).—Sixpence: see RHINO (B. E. and GROSE).
1672. Covent Garden Drollery, ‘Greenwich Strowlers.’
| The Prizes they took were a Londoner’s Groat, | |
| A Gentleman’s SICE, and his Skip-kennel’s Pot. |
1688. SHADWELL, The Squire of Alsatia. [In list of cant words.]
d. 1704. T. BROWN, Works, ii. 266. Several pretty Nymphs … but are often-times forc’d to Tick half a SICE a piece for their Watering.
1707. WARD, Hudibras Redivivus, II. iii. 27. For who’d not readily advance A SICE to see the Devil dance.
1840. BULWER-LYTTON, Paul Clifford, iii. As Mrs. Lobkins expressed it, ‘two bobs for the Latin, and a SICE for the vartue!’
