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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ace \Ace\, n.; pl {Aces}. [OE. as F. as fr L. as assis,
unity, copper coin, the unit of coinage. Cf {As}.]
1. A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card
or die so marked; as the ace of diamonds.
2. Hence: A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an
atom; a jot.
I 'll not wag an ace further. --Dryden.
{To bate an ace}, to make the least abatement. [Obs.]
{Within an ace of}, very near on the point of --W. Irving.
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