Fice

//faɪs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of feist (“a feist dog”). US, alt-of, alternative

    "1805 October 3, Lorenzo Dow, journal, in Orrin Scofield (ed.), Perambulations of Cosmopolite; or Travels and Labors of Lorenzo Dow, in Europe and America, Orrin Scofield (1842), page 178, He wrote a letter to Bob Sample, one of the most popular A-double-L-part preachers in the country, who like a little fice, or cur dog, would rail behind my back."

  2. 2
    Initialism of field inversion capillary electrophoresis. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
  3. 3
    a nervous belligerent little mongrel dog wordnet

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"1805 October 3, Lorenzo Dow, journal, in Orrin Scofield (ed.), Perambulations of Cosmopolite; or Travels and Labors of Lorenzo Dow, in Europe and America, Orrin Scofield (1842), page 178, He wrote a letter to Bob Sample, one of the most popular A-double-L-part preachers in the country, who like a little fice, or cur dog, would rail behind my back."

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