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 —
To die out,
to cease gradually; as, the prejudice has died out.
Syn. — To expire; decease; perish; depart; vanish.
Die
(Die), n.; pl. in 1 and (usually) in 2, Dice (dis); in 4 & 5, Dies [OE. dee, die, F. dé, fr. L. datus
given, thrown, p. p. of dare to give, throw. See Date a point of time.]
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.
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.