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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Die

Dīe, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [imp. & p. p. DIED (dīd); p. pr. & vb. n. DYING.] [O. Fries. deja, deya, Icel. deya, deyja, Dan. döe, Sw. döia, O. Sax. doan, dojan, O. H. Ger. towan, towjan, Goth. divan.]

  1. To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to decease; to expire; — said of animals or vegetables; often with of, by, or more seldom for, before the cause or occasion of death.
  2. To suffer death; to lose life.

Christ died for the ungodly. Rom. v. 6. 3. To cease; to become lost or extinct. Letting the secret die within his own breast. Spectator. 4. To sink; to faint; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, &c. His heart died within him, and he became as a stone. 1 Sam. xxv. 37. The young men acknowledged that they died for Rebecca. Tatler.

  1. To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.
  2. To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; — often with out or away.

Blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the brightness. Spectator. 7. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor. Syn. — To expire; decease; perish; depart; vanish.

Dīe, n.

noun

n. [Fr. dé, Pr. dat, It., Sp., & Pg. dado, from Lat. datum, from dare, to give, to throw.]

  1. A small cube, marked on its faces with numbers from one to six, used in gaming, by being thrown from a box. [See Illust. of Dice.]
  2. Any small cubical body. “Words . . . pasted upon little flat tablets or dice.” Watts.
  3. That which is or might be determined by a throw of the die; hazard; chance. [Obs.]

Such is the die of war. Spenser.

  1. (Arch.) The cubical part of the pedestal, between its base and cornice.
  2. The piece of metal on which is cut a device to be impressed by stamping, as on a coin, medal, piece of raised work, &c.
  3. One of two pieces of hardened steel forming together a female screw for cutting the threads of screws.

☞ In the first and second senses, the plural is DICE; in the third sense, the word hardly admits of a plural; in the last three senses, the plural is DIES.