·pl of Dice.
II. Die ·vi To suffer death; to lose life.
III. Die ·noun Any small cubical or square body.
IV. Die ·vi To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
V. Die ·noun That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.
VI. Die ·noun That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
VII. Die ·vi To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.
VIII. Die ·vi To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
IX. Die ·vi To perish in any manner; to Cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.
X. Die ·vi To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to Vanish;
— often with out or away.
XI. Die ·vi To Sink; to Faint; to Pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, ·etc.
XII. Die ·noun A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. ·see Dice.
XIII. Die ·noun A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, ·etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool.
XIV. Die ·noun A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing.
XV. Die ·noun A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, ·etc.
XVI. Die ·vi 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 Expire; to Perish;
— said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.