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Dye   /daɪ/   Listen
noun
Dye  n.  
1.
Color produced by dyeing.
2.
Material used for dyeing; a dyestuff.


Dye  n.  Same as Die, a lot.


verb
Dye  v. t.  (past & past part. dyed; pres. part. dyeing)  To stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to, as by the application of dyestuffs. "Cloth to be dyed of divers colors." "The soul is dyed by its thoughts."
To dye in the grain, To dye in the wool (Fig.), to dye firmly; to imbue thoroughly. "He might truly be termed a legitimate son of the revenue system dyed in the wool."
Synonyms: See Stain.





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"Dye" Quotes from Famous Books



... ex-Minister), Professor Adolf von Harnack (the theologian and General Director of the Royal Library at Berlin), Theodore Wolff (Editor of the Berliner Tageblatt), Dr. Oppenheim (who holds an important position in the dye industries), Carl Permet (Judge of the Berlin Commercial Courts), Prince von Hatzfeld, Franz von Mendelsohn (President of the Berlin Chamber of Commerce), Prince Donnersmarck, Count von Leyden (ex-ambassador), Dr. August Stein (Editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung), Major von Parseval ...
— The Better Germany in War Time - Being some Facts towards Fellowship • Harold Picton
... the crimson dye, Which sunset gives the western sky, Since on thy couch of death thou lay And watched its glories fade away. Those hues, so oft admired with thee, Would ask too ...
— Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life. • Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney
... was a rare imperious queen of hearts. No man before had ever ravished kisses from her in such turbulent fashion. When she thought of the abandon with which she had given herself to his lips and his embrace, the dye deepened on her cheeks. What was this shameless longing that had carried her to him as one looking down from a high tower is drawn to throw himself over the edge? He had trampled under foot the defenses that had availed against many who had a hundred times his advantages ...
— The Highgrader • William MacLeod Raine
... are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then with a continuous series of such thoughts as these: for instance, that where a man can live, there he can also live well. But he must live in a palace; well then, he can also live well in a palace. And again, consider that for whatever purpose ...
— Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus • Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
... yet did take up arms, And yet I dare to dye; But I'll not be seduced by phanatical charms Till I know a reason why. Why the King and the state Should fall to debate I ne'er could yet a reason see, But I find many one Why the wars should be done, And the King and his ...
— Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 • Charles Mackay


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