Die /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Died; p. pr. & vb. n. Dying

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 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.

   To die by the roadside of grief and hunger.

   She will die from want of care.

2. To suffer death; to lose life.

   In due time Christ died for the ungodly.

3. To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.

   Letting the secret die within his own breast.

   Great deeds can not die.

4. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.

   His heart died within, and he became as a stone.

   The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that they died for Rebecca.

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

   Blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the brightness.

7. To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face. (Arch.)
8. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.

   “There is one certain way,” replied the Prince [William of Orange] “ by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin, -- I will die in the last ditch.”

pl. Dice, Dies ((dīs))

1. 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.
2. Any small cubical or square body.

   Words . . . pasted upon little flat tablets or dies.

3. That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.

   Such is the die of war.

4. That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado. (Arch.)
5. 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. (Mach.)