Sentence:  For the marksman , we study sets of five shots ( * * f ) ; for the mice , we restrict attention to litters of eight ( * * f ) ; and for the aces , we toss three <WSD>dice</WSD> ( * * f ) . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers