Defn: A Linnæan class of plants having four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.
DIDYNAMIAN
Did`y*na"mi*an, a.
Defn: Didynamous.
DIDYNAMOUS
Di*dyn"a*mous, a. (Bot.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the Didynamia; containing four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.
DIE Die, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Died; p. pr. & vb. n. Dying.] Etym: [OE. deyen, dien, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. deyja; akin to Dan. döe, Sw. dö, Goth. diwan (cf. Goth. afd to harass), OFries. d to kill, OS. doian to die, OHG. touwen, OSlav. daviti to choke, Lith. dovyti to torment. Cf. Dead, Death.]
1. 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 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.