dye

name

1. A surname.
2. An unincorporated community in Platte County, Missouri, United States.

noun

1. Archaic spelling of die (“a cube used in games of chance”).

   “The Superficies was compoſed of ſeveral bits of Wood, about the bigneſs of a Dye, but ſome larger than others.”

   “If a dye were marked with one figure or number of spots on four sides, and with another figure or number of spots on the two remaining sides, it would be more probable, that the former would turn up than the latter;”

verb

Etymology: Fom Middle English deien, from Old English dēagian, from the noun.

1. To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

   “You look different. Have you had your hair dyed?”

   “But tho’ Black cannot be Dyed to the laſt perfection either in Wool or Hair without Woad, the Hatters have quite left off their accuſtomed uſe of it in the Dying of Hatts, and believe at the ſame time, that too ſtrong a Black makes the Hairs or Nap fall off, which is very neceſſary for the ſale and beauty of the Hatts, though this rather proceeds from the hand of the Workman that dreſſes them than in Dying them, or the Hairs not being ſufficiently fulled, or ſtrongly enough united to the felt; […]”