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• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

DIE (Fr. de, from See also:

• LAT

Lat. datum, given)  , a word used in various senses, for a small See also:

• CUBE (Gr. K46os, a cube)

cube of See also:

• IVORY (Fr. ivoire, Lat. ebur)
• IVORY, SIR JAMES (1765-1842)

ivory, &c . (see See also:

• DICE (plural of die, O. Fr. de, derived from Lat. dare, to give)

DicE), for the engraved stamps used in coining See also:

• MONEY

money, &c., and various See also:

• MECHANICAL

mechanical appliances in See also:

• ENGINEERING

engineering . In See also:

• ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture a " See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die " is the See also:

• TERM

term used for the square See also:

• BASE

base of a See also:

• COLUMN (Lat. columna)

column, and it is applied also to the See also:

• VERTICAL (from Lat. vertex, highest point)

vertical See also:

• FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face of a See also:

• PEDESTAL (Fr. piedestal, Ital. piedestallo, foot of a stall)

pedestal or See also:

• PODIUM (Gr. lr66tov, diminutive of ?roils, foot)

podium . The fabrics known as " dice " take their name from the rectangular See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the figure . The See also:

• ORIGINAL

original figures would probably be perfectly square, but to-See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day the same principle of See also:

• WEAVING

weaving is applied, and the name dice is given to all figures of rectangular form . The different effects in the adjacent squares or rectangles are due to precisely the same reasons as those explained in connexion with the ground and the figure of damasks . The same weaves are used in both damasks and dices, but simpler weaves are generally employed for the commoner classes of the latter . The effect is, in every See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case, obtained by what are technic-ally called warp and weft See also:

• FLOAT (in O. Eng. floc and flota, in the verbal form f eotan; the Teutonic root is flut-, another form of flu-, seen in " flow," cf. " fleet "; the root is seen in Gr. a-M e, to sail, Lat. pluere, to rain; the Lat, fluere and fluctus, wave, is not connect

float weaves . The See also:

• ILLUSTRATION

illustration B shows the two See also:

• DOUBLE
• DOUBLE (from the Mid. Eng. duble, the form which gives the present pronunciation, through the Old Er. duble, from Lat. duplus, twice as much)

double See also:

• DAMASK

damask weaves arranged to form a dice pat-See also:

• TERN (Norsk taerne, tende or tende; Swedish tarna; Dutch Stern1)

tern, while A shows a similar See also:

• PATTERN

pattern made from two four-See also:

• THREAD (0. Eng. praed, literally, that which is twisted, prawan, to twist, to throw, cf. " throwster," a silk-winder, Ger. drehen, to twist, turn, Du. draad, Ger. Draht, thread, wire)

thread See also:

• TWILL (connected with " two ")

twill weaves . C and D represent respectively the disposition of the threads in A and B with the first pick, and the solid marks represent the floats of warp . The four squares, which are almost as pronounced in the See also:

• CLOTH

cloth as those of a See also:

• CHESS

chess-See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board, may be made of any See also:

• SIZE

size by repeating each weave for the amount of See also:

• SURFACE

surface required . It is only in the finest cloths that the double damask weaves B are used for dice patterns, the single damask weaves and the twill weaves being employed to a greater extent .

This class of pattern is largely employed for the See also:

• PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production of table-cloths of See also:

• LOWER

lower and See also:

• MEDIUM

medium qualities . The term damask is also often applied to cloths of this See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character, and especially so when the figure is formed by rectangles of different sizes .