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- English Word Didine Definition Like or pertaining to the genus Didus, or the dodo.
- English Word Dido Definition A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.
- English Word Didonia Definition The curve which on a given surface and with a given perimeter contains the greatest area.
- English Word Didos Definition of Dido
- English Word Didrachm Definition Alt. of Didrachma
- English Word Didrachma Definition A two-drachma piece; an ancient Greek silver coin, worth nearly forty cents.
- English Word Didst Definition the 2d pers. sing. imp. of Do.
- English Word Diducement Definition Diduction; separation into distinct parts.
- English Word Diduction Definition The act of drawing apart; separation.
- English Word Didym Definition See Didymium.
- English Word Didymium Definition A rare metallic substance usually associated with the metal cerium; -- hence its name. It was formerly supposed to be an element, but has since been found to consist of two simpler elementary substances, neodymium and praseodymium. See Neodymium, and Praseodymium.
- English Word Didymous Definition Growing in pairs or twins.
- English Word Didynamia Definition A Linnaean class of plants having four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.
- English Word Didynamian Definition Didynamous.
- English Word Didynamous Definition Of or pertaining to the Didynamia; containing four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.
- English Word Die Definition of Dice
- English Word Die Definition 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.
- English Word Die Definition To suffer death; to lose life.
- English Word Die Definition To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.
- English Word Die Definition To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
- English Word Die Definition To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.
- English Word Die Definition To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away.
- English Word Die Definition To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
- English Word Die Definition To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
- English Word Die Definition 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.
- English Word Die Definition Any small cubical or square body.
- English Word Die Definition That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
- English Word Die Definition That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.
- English Word Die Definition 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.
- English Word Die Definition 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.