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<h1>Didymous</h1> <Xpage=409>

<hw>Did"y*mous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ twofold, twin.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Growing in pairs or twins.</def>

<h1>Didynamia</h1> <Xpage=409>

<hw>Did`y*na"mi*a</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ = <?/ twice + <?/ power.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A Linn\'91an class of plants having four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.</def>

<h1>Didynamian</h1> <Xpage=409>

<hw>Did`y*na"mi*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Didynamous.</def>

<h1>Didynamous</h1> <Xpage=409>

<hw>Di*dyn"a*mous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to the Didynamia; containing four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.</def>

<h1>Die</h1> <Xpage=409>

<hw>Die</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Died</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dying</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>deyen</ets>, <ets>dien</ets>, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. <ets>deyja</ets>; akin to Dan. <ets>d\'94e</ets>, Sw. <ets>d\'94</ets>, Goth. <ets>diwan</ets> (cf. Goth. <ets>afd<?/jan</ets> to harass), OFries. <ets>d<?/ia</ets> to kill, OS. <ets>doian</ets> to die, OHG. <ets>touwen</ets>, OSlav. <ets>daviti</ets> to choke, Lith. <ets>dovyti</ets> to torment. Cf. <er>Dead</er>, <er>Death</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>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 <i>of</i>, <i>by</i>, <i>with</i>, <i>from</i>, and rarely <i>for</i>, before the cause or occasion of death; <as>as, to <ex>die</ex> of disease or hardships; to <ex>die</ex> by fire or the sword; to <ex>die</ex> with horror at the thought.</as></def>

<blockquote>To <b>die</b> by the roadside of grief and hunger. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>She will <b>die</b> from want of care. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To suffer death; to lose life.</def>

<blockquote>In due time Christ <b>died</b> for the ungodly. <i>Rom. v. 6.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.</def>

<blockquote>Letting the secret <b>die</b> within his own breast. <i>Spectator.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Great deeds can not <b>die</b>. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.</def>

<blockquote>His heart <b>died</b> within, and he became as a stone. <i>1 Sam. xxv. 37.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that they <b>died</b> for Rebecca. <i>Tatler.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; <as>as, to <ex>die</ex> to pleasure or to sin</as>.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with <i>out</i> or <i>away</i>.</def>

<blockquote>Blemishes may <b>die</b> away and disappear amidst the brightness. <i>Spectator.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.</def>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.</def>

<cs><col>To die in the last ditch</col>, <cd>to fight till death; to die rather than surrender.</cd>

<blockquote>"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 <b>will die in the last ditch</b>." <i>Hume (Hist. of Eng. ).</i></blockquote>