{Dice coal}, a kind of coal easily splitting into cubical
fragments. --Brande & C.
To die by the roadside of grief and hunger.
--Macaulay.
She will die from want of care. --Tennyson.
2. To suffer death; to lose life.
In due time Christ died for the ungodly. --Rom. v.
6.
3. To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or
extinct; to be extinguished.
Letting the secret die within his own breast.
--Spectator.
Great deeds can not die. --Tennyson.
4. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness,
discouragement, love, etc.
His heart died within, and he became as a stone. --1
Sam. xxv. 37.
The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that
they died for Rebecca. --Tatler.
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. --Spectator.
7. (Arch.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as
where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
8. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
{To die in the last ditch}, to fight till death; to die
rather than surrender.
``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.'' --Hume (Hist.
of Eng. ).
{To die out}, to cease gradually; as, the prejudice has died
out.
Syn: To expire; decease; perish; depart; vanish.
2. Any small cubical or square body.
Words . . . pasted upon little flat tablets or dies.
--Watts.
3. That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the
die; hazard; chance.
Such is the die of war. --Spenser.
4. (Arch.) That part of a pedestal included between base and
cornice; the dado.
5. (Mach.)
(a) 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.
(b) 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.
(c) 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.
{Cutting die} (Mech.), a thin, deep steel frame, sharpened to
a cutting edge, for cutting out articles from leather,
cloth, paper, etc.
{The die is cast}, the hazard must be run; the step is taken,
and it is too late to draw back; the last chance is taken.