Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DIE, n.¹ [plur. Dice. Fr. dé; It. dado; Sp. and Port. id.; Arm. diçz; Ir. disle.]

1. A small cube, marked on its faces with numbers from one to six, used in gaming, by being thrown from a box. He ventured his all on the cast of a die.
2. Any cubic body; a flat tablet. – Watts.
3. In architecture, the cubical part of the pedestal, between its base and cornice.
4. Hazard; chance. Such is the die of war. – Spenser.