• | of Dice |
• | 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 suffer death; to lose life. |
• | To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished. |
• | To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc. |
• | To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin. |
• | To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away. |
• | To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face. |
• | To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor. |
• | 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. |
• | Any small cubical or square body. |
• | That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance. |
• | That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado. |
• | 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. |
• | 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. |
• | 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. |
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